Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country threatening them with slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.

In the days since the Presidential election, Black people across America have received anonymous text messages summoning them for slave labor, prompting inquiries by the FBI as well as law

Federal and state authorities are investigating a string of racist text messages sent to Black people across the U.S. during the week of the presidential election. The big picture: Racist messages echoing slavery's horrors have hit phones nationwide,