Dear Amy: About two years ago, my husband started using the “N-word” (we are white). He mainly used this word when watching something that upsets him or when he would drink. You get the picture. He is ...

Racial tensions and injustices across the U.S. and the globe are unfortunately nothing new, neither are the responses they can elicit. For Randall Kennedy, Harvard scholar and law professor, this has ...

Madonna latest star to apologize for using the racial slur. Jan. 21, 2014— -- intro: Madonna discovered what a lot of other stars before her have, that using the n-word, no matter how well ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s one of the most ...

Readers discuss a Sunday Review essay that spells out the slur and whether its use is acceptable in any context. To the Editor: Re “How the N-Word Became Unsayable,” by John McWhorter (Sunday Review, ...

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The N-word appears sparingly in James, Percival Everett’s 2024 novel that reinvents the escaped slave narrative while it recycles Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a classic set in the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Kimmel, who urged actor Tom Arnold to release an alleged "N-word" tape of President Trump in 2018, admitted years ago that he imitated rapper Snoop Dogg's voice for a track in a 1996 ...

Viggo Mortensen is apologizing for using the n-word after a screening of his new film Green Book Viggo Mortensen is apologizing for using the n-word after a screening of his new film Green Book. The ...

Just like hip-hop artists who decades ago swept that once-unspeakable word into pop culture consciousness, today's young Black TV-makers are almost uniformly demanding to use it, unconcerned about ...

Recently my wife and I were driving down the street in our racially diverse neighborhood in southern California. As we waited at a red light, a car full of high school age White youth pulled up next ...