CLAIM: Black students at a Spokane, Washington, middle school were ordered to “pick cotton” as a school assignment.
VERDICT: False.
The disturbing story is already viral…
BET: “Black Middle School Students Reportedly Ordered To Pick Cotton”
NPR: “Cotton picking lesson leaves Black middle school students reeling in Spokane”
ABC: “Black students ‘humiliated’ by cotton-picking assignment”
Drudge: “SHOCK: Black Middle School Students Ordered To Pick Cotton…”
This sounds awful, right? Who would do such a thing? The mother of the two 14-year-old girls at the…
