During a Monday interview with comedian Marc Maron, President Barack Obama used the n-word to drive home the point that the shunning of the word in today’s…

Zzzzzz https://t.co/ygeIi3b2yP — Chester M. Hanks (@CHETHAZE) April 13, 2014 Tom Hanks‘ rapper son, Chester, is the latest White artist to appropriate the n-word, and…

If you Google Map “nigga house,” this is what you’ll find. America. pic.twitter.com/YWRO1OiYgc — deray mckesson (@deray) May 19, 2015 Internet juggernaut Google is apologizing…

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A day after Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes shut down CNN host Erin Burnett who tried to justify the use of “thug” to describe teens…

It’s no secret. The word “thug” in the media has long been a euphemism for Black people, often used by those who fail to consider…

A Black University of Kentucky basketball player found himself apologizing after a hot mic picked up his “poor choice of words” towards his White opponent…

Lawsuit: Racial slur printed on wedding day photo booth pictures http://t.co/oIv0lBAc3P pic.twitter.com/qnZqgGfBOF — ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) April 1, 2015 A couple from Houston, Texas…

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Connecticut College officials canceled classes on Monday after someone scrawled “No N-words” in the bathrooms on the first floor of the student center building, according…

Conversations about the N-word can be tiresome. Should we say it? Can White people say it? Will it always have hurtful connotations attached to it? Is…

  This Just In: It’s 2015 and white people are still obsessed with using the “N-word”; At least that’s the way it seemed on last…

As much work as the people behind the Washington Post’s interactive project on “The N-Word” likely put in, its biggest and only beneficiaries are those who…

Public Enemy’s ringleader Chuck D spoke out to TMZ about the use of the N-word in Hip Hop shortly after Suge Knight proposed the controversial idea on the inaccuracy of the term “African-American.” Even though the socially and politically aware Chuck D agrees that the AA term isn’t the most befitting, he still believes that allowing the […]