The FBI is investigating a wave of offensive and racist text messages sent to African American and Black communities across the United States.

"I don't understand why they don't like us because of the color of our skin." TextNow, a mobile provider that allows people ...

The racist text messages have been reported by people in more than a dozen US states, including California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. The wording of ...

Many teenagers and college students reported being among those who received racist text messages sent to phone ... "I don't understand why they don't like us because of the color of our skin." ...

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

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...

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 ...

Reports have been flooding in of Black people across the United States ... text messages referencing slavery and "picking cotton", following Donald Trump's presidential election win. These racist ...

A text messaging service announced Friday that it ended the accounts of users allegedly connected to racists texts sent following the election.

Authorities are investigating racist ... The texts were sent from numbers with area codes in at least 25 different states, according to CBS News, the BBC's partner network in the US.