A Metropolitan Police officer who was found to have committed gross misconduct by calling her black colleagues “cotton pickers” has kept her job. Pc Mia Korell, who is part of the Roads and ...

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Some families in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged after a high school history class in which the teacher told the students to pass around cotton ... complaint from a Black student in ...

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to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past enslavement of black people in the United States. It remained unclear which individuals or entities were behind the ...

One day after the presidential election, and in the days following, Black people across the country ... plantations to work as slaves and “pick cotton.” While the exact language of the ...

The day after Election Day, predominantly Black recipients received racist, trollish text messages telling them they had been “selected” to “pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” ...

Black students at multiple universities are reportedly receiving racist text messages regarding picking cotton and slavery. In screenshots shared by The Neighborhood Talk, the co-eds are being ...

Racist text messages are targeting Black Americans across the country, telling them they've been selected to be enslaved and forced to pick cotton on a plantation. Screenshots of the widespread ...

Widespread reports of racist text messages sent to Black Americans are spreading across ... been selected to be enslaved and assigned to pick cotton on a plantation. The messages vary in details ...

A federal lawsuit claiming an Illinois teacher gave Black students bags of cotton after a lesson about slavery drew outraged community members to their school board meeting Tuesday. The racial ...