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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...