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Incendiary Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett suggested the United States needs immigrants for farm jobs because black people “are done picking cotton” while speaking at a historically black church over the weekend. The far left congresswoman’s eyebrow-raising remark on Sunday came as she was making the case for the country’s migrant population she believes was […]
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HOUSTON, United States US authorities on Friday were investigating a series of racist text messages sent to Black people nationwide referencing them as “slaves” and “picking cotton.” Some of the messages shared with news outlets across the country exhibited bigoted language reminiscent of the country’s painful history of slavery and the unjust treatment of African […]
US authorities are investigating racist text messages sent anonymously to black Americans across the country this week telling them they should be enslaved, prompting widespread condemnations as well as warnings. The NAACP civil rights group said the messages urged recipients in multiple states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, to report to a plantation […]
CNN — Authorities across the United States are investigating after several people, including children and college students, reported receiving racist text messages from unrecognized phone numbers in recent days. The texts have been reported in states including Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, Michigan . . .
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, known for his sardonic quips, famously remarked that the United States is buffered by weak neighbors to the north and south and by fish to the east and west. Though Bismarck sought to highlight America’s latent geographic advantages, its remoteness brings another blessing that has become emblematic of post-Cold War […]
In 2016, he took the stage briefly on Night 1 after a WWE-style entrance, while Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton didn’t appear in person until Night 3 of the Democratic convention, when she appeared onstage alongside President Barack Obama after his speech. In 2012, Republican . . .
Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular, their history with this famous crop, that helps clothe the world, is complicated. Now Julius Tillery, a Black cotton farmer in North Carolina, is working to turn cotton’s […]
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