Federal and state authorities are investigating a wave of bigoted text messages sent anonymously that have spread alarm among Black Americans across the country this week, officials and recipients told Reuters. The messages urged recipients in multiple states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, to report to a plantation…

The FBI is investigating after racist text messages were sent to black people across the United States.

The messages tell recipients they have been selected "to pick cotton" or “chosen to be a slave", authorities say.