“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 ...

DID that headline make you uncomfortable? Of course it did, and you're not alone. As Publisher's Weekly reports, NewSouth Books is releasing a new edition of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry ...

Jill Nelson is the author of “Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience” and, most recently, “Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island.” Updated January 6, 2011, 3:57 ...

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.

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 ...