Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Down in the basement, the Negroes could hear every bitter shout: “Nigger, nigger, go home,” and “Nigger lovers never go to heaven,” and “We’ll rock you out,” and “Get the niggers ...

Professor Randall Kennedy talked about his book, [Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word], published by Pantheon Books. The book traces the word "nigger," to identify how it has been ...

The older Onyeama was famous for his controversial novel, “Nigger at Eton”, where he detailed the racial discrimination he faced at the Eton College.

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 ...

I s it acceptable for pedagogical purposes to enunciate the epithet “nigger”? The question is topical because of a string of incidents in which professors have been condemned, disciplined ...

Like it or not, and you know, that’s another conversation, the word is part of our public and private lexicon, and the notion that contemporary readers of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are ...

Do a Westlaw search for nigger & da(aft 1/1/1990), and you will find a bit more than 10,000 such cases, and there are many cases that quote other epithets as well; nor is the pace slowing down.

"Nigger will have to fight for every inch he gets from now on." Michael Kent Curtis, one of the leading historians of American free speech, was teaching the case in his constitutional law class, ...

The discussion on who has the right to say nigger is something that will undoubtedly carry on for a while. Within Black people it’s more of a personal choice on who can say it. Even I, as a Black ...