“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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

But even if the alleged “nigger” tape surfaces, I highly doubt that it would move the needle — especially within his own party. According to a CBS News poll released last week, while 58 ...

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.