Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

In the two decades since he published his book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” Randall Kennedy has witnessed the persistence of the n-word as “an oft-heard feature of the ...

Updated January 6, 2011, 3:57 PM I live in a city where I probably hear the word “nigger” 50 times a day from people of all colors and ages, though primarily from young people on public ...

Updated Saturday, June 3, 2017, 12:50 p.m. EDT: For all those salivating to see messy Bill Maher use the word “nigger” on-screen, fuhgeddaboudit. If you were trying to catch the now-infamous ...

The names of 3 areas in the Southern Alps been changed to words taken from the indigenous Maori language Wellington: New Zealand is to erase the racially offensive word "nigger" from its landscape ...

Nigger Rock is the name of one of eleven geographical sites in the province of Quebec that a group of mostly black people want changed. Understandably they find the name offensive. But Dan Philip ...

It’s emblazoned on a T-shirt. But Ali didn’t say “No Viet Cong ever called me nigger” when he first said “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,” or something close to it ...

In Hollywood, there are lots of jokes in the system! The social pattern that allows Quentin Tarantino’s “Nigger joke” to work is set in the South, two years before the Civil War, but my ...

Updated January 6, 2011, 3:57 PM My freshman year at Yale I had a white roommate whose favorite song was “Rock n Roll Nigger” by Patti Smith. He played it all the time. I liked my roommate ...

Inspiring news out of Queensland this morning: The ES ’Nigger’ Brown stand in Toowoomba will come down to make way for a statue. For those who’ve missed this enduring and heart-warming tale ...

Mr. Kennedy talked about his book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, published by Pantheon Books. The book chronicles the hi… read more Mr. Kennedy talked about his book ...