Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” ...

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 ...

Talaya Jones, a Black resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, was “shocked,” then angry and sad, to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest ...

What made cotton so desirable? In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco, were depleting farmland and dropping in value. At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ...

This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict ... [why textile manufacturers] circulate remonstrances against the extension of black slavery at the South, while ...

The cotton was used in an activity where students put their hands in a box to determine what was inside, the lawsuit said. After the activity, the teacher gave the two Black students in the class ...

Talaya Jones, a Black resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, was “shocked,” then angry and sad, to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest ...