A Black mother filed a civil lawsuit last week against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education, alleging that her daughter was left traumatized after a cotton picking field ...

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 ...

Southeast Texas—Hi y’all. We’re picking cotton. All four machines are running. This is a fantastic day. The field we are currently harvesting is picking fairly poor. It’s yielding about 0.8 bales an ...

(CNN) — 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 and ...

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 and bigoted past ...

In her granddaughter's TikTok video, Madie Scott said she would pick cotton in the fields every day from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m. Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital.

An Oct. 5 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows two photos, one of President Joe Biden and another of a man holding an armful of cotton in a field. “Joe Biden is offering Black people ...

LEBAP PROVINCE, Turkmenistan -- Thousands of teachers, health-care workers, and other state employees in Turkmenistan have been forced to pick cotton as the annual harvest season kicked off in August ...