And that includes being able to say the word “nigger” publicly and out loud again. The response to Shiloh Hendrix, a grown white woman and mother from Minnesota, is instructive. Earlier this ...

As the first busload of Negroes arrived outside the church, a handful of white teen-agers began to chant: “Nigger, nigger, nigger—go back to your neighborhood.” More Negroes arrived ...

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 ...

When Marx confers with a certain Captain Barrett about the matter, his white gentile superior expounds as follows: "Marx, I'd fight side by side with a nigger if the fella proved to me he was a man." ...

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 ...

One facet of the demands that people stop quoting the word "nigger"—even when they are quoting Supreme Court opinions or discussing other real-world incidents—is that the calls are sometimes ...

There's a saying that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But what happens when imitation appears to cross over into cultural appropriation and exploitation? This week, social media ...

Who has the right to say the word nigger? Not nigga, with an a, but nigger. Hard r. If you’re Black, at this point into the article you’re probably enraged this word is being published in a news ...

Defining racism as who does or does not say “nigger,” for instance, boils bigotry down to mere language rather than realizing it is a more silent and comprehensive web of oppression.

“Dear Nigger Professor.” That was the beginning of a message that was sent to me. There is nothing to be cherished here, despite the salutation. Years ago, Malcolm X asked, “What does a ...