If it’s in an academic setting, if it’s part of a class lecture, if the word is in a poem written by a Black man, if it ends with an “a”— then he thinks it’s OK.

In a white person’s mouth, the word has always been the nuclear option of slurs – the one phrase guaranteed to earn you an ass kicking from any black person who hears it in modern times ...

NPR's Melissa Block speaks to John McWhorter, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, about the use of the word "thug" to describe Baltimore rioters.

A White Superintendent Who Allegedly Admitted to Using the N-word and Preventing Black Principals from Sitting Together During Meetings Is Now Facing Fifth Discrimination Lawsuit In Two Years.

But a white student so horrified at Sheck’s uttering the N-word within the context of its usage by a black, crusading anti-racist figure such as James Baldwin that the student reports her to the ...

Lafayette City Judge Michelle Odinet called a Black man the N-word, and she didn’t think anyone but family would know. It doesn’t matter. She shouldn’t have said it. There are things White ...

When the right wing targets prominent Black women for harassment they are combining sexism and racism in a gendered version of the N-word. White America’s hostility to the Black Lives Matter ...

For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.” ...

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 ...

Canopy Studio's advanced student division presented an aerial art performance about the power of the written word on Friday, Feb. 3, Saturday Feb. 4 and Sunday, Feb. 5.