Princeton University visual arts professor, Joe Scanlan — a white man — thinks it’s OK for him to say the N-word. If it’s in an academic setting, if it’s part of a class lecture, if the ...

He says he’s being truthful to his white and black characters who might say the word in real life. Okay. And one function of art is to shock and challenge and unsettle us, which is tougher to do ...

Dr. McWhorter is a linguist who has written extensively about both race and language. He is the author, most recently, of “Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter,” from which this guest essay ...

Someone wrote the N-word in the snow on top of a storage unit at the Idaho Black History Museum. Phillip Thompson, the museum’s board president and executive director, said he saw it Wednesday ...

But as a Black man who came up in the 1960s, Doox wrestled with the racism he experienced in society and the church — and with the prospect of creating icons of a white Jesus.

Race is not an issue movies confront often, or well. But when Kevin Costner saw the script for "Black or White," a drama about a white man embroiled in a battle for custody of his biracial ...