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 ...

“What would white people do without the nigger?” It’s a question that courses and bleeds through Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The First White President.” It’s never asked explicitly, but it ...

Once and for all, black people, either individually or collectively, need to come to terms with the word nigger. It is not going to disappear. America's most controversial racial epithet was in t… ...

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 ...

White Nigger: The Struggles and Triumphs Growing up Bi-Racial in America. Book Release Date: October 12, 2017 (pre-orders started July 17) Format: Paperback, hardcover, eBooks and audio book.

“You’re an exceptional nigger Platt, but I fear no good will come from it.” — Master Ford, in 12 Years a Slave There is no doubt that as an artist, Steve McQueen is exceptional.

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 ...

Nigger when used by black people, is a lovely, lovely thing. I will believe that till the end of my days. It can be beautifully ominous ("Nigger, what?") and just plain beautiful ...

In the black community, kick-a-nigger politics has helped reinforce racial solidarity. Many people of color quickly assumed that the 47 percent Romney was talking about were black and brown people.

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 ...

Volokh Conspiracy. Barred from Participating in Public High School Graduation for Using "Nigger" in a Tweet? That's the claim in a federal lawsuit, which a federal judge just allowed to go forward.