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 ...

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 ...

"Them" being niggers. I have no qualm about using the word nigger. It is a word. It is in the English lexicon, and no amount of political correctness, no amputation into "the n-word"—as if by ...

That Jim. Now, there’s a nigger for you. Argued over ever since he first appeared, in Mark Twain’s 1884 masterpiece, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Nigger Jim is as dark and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seriously people, I love this argument put forth by stupid white folks who somehow clamor to say nigger and have black people smile, and even stupider black folks who claim that my use of nigger ...