Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful ...

Talaya Jones, a Black resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, was “shocked,” then angry and sad after receiving a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the ...

The mural shows Black people, mostly women, picking cotton and even has a young-looking girl in it. It doesn’t call them slaves, but Sutton said it took her family back to that time.

Incendiary Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett suggested the United States needs immigrants for farm jobs because black people “are done picking cotton” while speaking at a historically black church ...

Many were forced to live and work on plantations growing cotton, considered a leading cash crop. They picked cotton for long hours and endured heat, humidity, unsanitary conditions, untreated ...