There was no mourning at this funeral. Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing symbol of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its ...

This is a question I’ve heard far too often in school. Many teachers have long stood by the notion that they should be able to say the N-word and other slurs while teaching. Although some teachers may ...

Bill Maher has issued an apology after he said the N-word during a conversation with Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse on Friday night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE WARNING: ...

On the season premiere of ABC’s Emmy-nominated black-ish, which returned last night for a second season, the Johnson’s youngest son Jack (Miles Brown) is expelled from school for saying the n-word ...

A silly photo of six little ignorant high school girls went viral last month. They attend Desert Vista high school in Phoenix. It was picture day, and a group of seniors wore black shirts with ...

A language arts teacher in California was caught on video using the N-word multiple times in class — and allegedly tried to force a student to utter the racial slur because it’s in the dictionary. The ...

San Diego teacher Amy Glancy thought she’d prepared her fourth-grade students for the day’s language arts lesson. She knew there was a land mine in the poem she planned to read, but she considered it ...

Editor’s note: The following story contains quoted racial slurs that some readers may find offensive. President Barack Obama took on some very complex ideas about race and racism, and all anyone heard ...

A woman defending her right to say the n-word while singing the lyrics to rap songs on TikTok sparked a fierce debate on the social media platform over whether it's ever okay to use the racial slur.

Rumors have long circulated that Donald Trump used the N-word while taping “The Apprentice.” Last week one of the show’s producers, his nondisclosure agreement having expired, recounted one instance ...

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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, ...