Conservatives don’t just want white dominance. They want to be able to abuse Black people in the worst ways possible—and get ...

Roth's fiction is often perceived as sympathetic to the Black struggle. His real legacy is far more complicated ...

Make no mistake about it, the word “nigger” hurt. The words, “darkies” and “Negro,” also show up in a text that aims to cast the enslaved Black man in a heroic light. “Colored ...

But I could see myself in every dimension of the story she told. I was that 8-year-old in the poem, called “nigger” by white girls not much older than me, on a sleepover at the YMCA.

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 ...

In one text message exchange with a friend who complained about the number of Black people at a restaurant, the younger McMichael suggested, “Need to change the name from Cracker Barrel to Nigger ...

A retired U.S. Air Force officer, who is white, recently had his conviction overturned by a federal appeals court that found that the his use of the word “nigger” was protected by the First ...

But it also upheld the firing of a basketball coach who had used the word "nigger" in a motivational speech: According to Dambrot's testimony, Dambrot told the players they hadn't been playing ...

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 ...

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.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Like most people who use Instagram, I peruse the platform to seek out black beauty—men and woman. I live in Brazil, a country that is more than ...