“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 lurks beneath each ...

For eleven days in 2001, two blacks ran our country. It's their example and their achievement—and not the culture of failure fomented by the leftovers of the Movement—that must set a new agenda for ...

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CNN Tonight host Don Lemon outdid himself Monday evening when he held up a giant sign that said "NIGGER" with with the words "Does this offend you?" emblazoned across the bottom of the screen. Exactly ...

Seriously people, I love this argument put forth by stupid white folks who somehow clamor to say nigger and have black people smile, and even stupider black folks who claim that my use of nigger ...

“You’re an exceptional nigger Platt, but I fear no good will come from it.” Most of what has been written about 12 Years a Slave so far has failed to consider the impact of the politics of some of the ...

The war over the “n” word has been joined. Last week, after a one-sided debate, the New York City Council voted for a toothless ban on the word nigger. While acknowledging that the measure was only ...

If you’ve been looking for an insightful way to understand the black struggle as it relates to modern day America, you might want to pick up a new book by author Jason Bost, who was born in WNY. White ...

That Jim. Now, there’s a nigger for you. Argued over ever since he first appeared, in Mark Twain’s 1884 masterpiece, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Nigger Jim is as dark and emotionally murky ...

From Castro v. City of Clovis, decided Friday by Judge Dale A. Drozd (E.D. Cal.): … On June 13, 2019, plaintiff filed this action, alleging violations of his rights to free speech and due process.

Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor, is an associate dean and the Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “Let’s Get Free: A ...

In order for a joke to work, Mary Douglas, the eminent British anthropologist, wrote that one had to have a social context for it to operate in. “We must ask what are the social conditions for a joke ...