University of Wisconsin-Madison campus police made a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Friday regarding racist text messages being sent to students. “UWPD is aware of reports that Black UW-Madison students have received racist text messages as part of a nationwide wave of messages that began on Thursday,

The messages followed the same general script, summoning the recipient to pick cotton on a plantation and assigning a time to be picked up by slave handlers.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police (UWPD) announced they received reports that Black students were sent the mass, racist text messages that have been circulating across the country.

Similar mass messages were reportedly sent to students around the country on the same day, according to a statement from school officials.

Years ago, before Warner became the off-campus housing specialist for UW-Madison's University Housing Division, her own daughter found herself accidentally locked into two different off-campus housing leases.

Massachusetts police are investigating “abhorrent racist” text messages that were sent to students as part of a nationwide trend after the election.

The messages in question come from an unknown source and reads as an automated message that urges readers "to report to a plantation to pick cotton."

Reports of racist text messages to high school and college students have been making waves across the country and now in central Alabama.