Black Minnesota middle school students are receiving racist text messages referencing plantations and slavery. Its part of a nationwide trend.

Racist text messages were sent to scores of Black people the day after the election telling them they had been “selected” to pick cotton “at the nearest plantation.”

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

Federal and local authorities are investigating a host of racist text messages sent to an unknown number of Black recipients across the country.

Thousands of Black residents in at least 19 other states have received racist messages in the past few days, with some saying the person was "selected to pick cotton," or to become "a slave."