Kansas Education Board member Steve Roberts defended himself on Tuesday after facing criticism over his use of a racial slur at a mid-April meeting wh...
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) rattled off a list of epithets, including the N-word, at an event in his home state last week, The Tennessean reports, in or...
The n-word is overused, misused and socially abused on sites like Facebook and Twitter all the time. And while we act as if Rihanna has done something extraordinarily taboo, I challenge you to check the Instagram accounts and tweets of many other hip-hop artists and friends.
When Dunham said Lampanelli's comments made her "uncomfortable," was she actually referring to the fact that frank discussion about race makes her uncomfortable?
Self-proclaimed comedian Lisa Lampanelli has once again proven her fondness for back-door racism by referring to creator of the hit HBO series Girls, ...
The controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino's usage of the n-word in "Django Unchained" has been a popular topic as of late in entertainment world. ...
I will give Spike Lee his props. I will give John Singleton his respect. But directors such as Tyler Perry and many others who continue to profit from such slander and stereotype of the black population should be held responsible for such backlash that comes from Django.
As with Inglourious Basterds, in Django Tarantino once again seems to speak directly to the heart and from the minds of the characters he is writing for, and taps into the imaginatively creative and fantastical outcome that makes this a great movie experience.
Making reference to the N-word, slavery, Madea, and other derogatory and ignorant comments that some say when referring to African Americans is not cool to me. It has been something that has been on my mind for weeks. I can't seem to shake it off nor ignore it.
Gwyneth Paltrow's tweet opened a floodgate of discussion about the use and misuse of the N-word and the process was culturally defining and highly educational. Now the national media should take on the R-word: Redskin.
I think when actually using it with malice on your heart you can feel the difference in the way a personās saying it [and how they say it]. When wom...
Georgia bar owner Patrick Lanzo of Paulding County has made habit of claiming he's not racist, an argument that becomes harder to make each time he de...
A suburban Chicago man has been suspended for one year from his post as president of a local youth baseball club after he posted on Facebook that he w...
Lincoln Brown, a 48-year-old Chicago Public Schools teacher, has filed a federal lawsuit against the district after being suspended without pay for fi...
Rihanna is well known for her fierce fashion sense, and regularly receives praise for her chic wardrobe choices. But one fashion magazine is apologizi...
Home robbery is enough to upset anyone. But while some people may call the police after such an incident, a Michigan woman decided to do something tot...
It's a familiar scene for many athletes. The last few minutes in the locker room before the game, when teammates and coaches come together to motivate...
For at least a decade, women angry about the sexual double standard have tried to wrest control of the "slut" label. Is the time ripe to appropriate "slut"? Forgive me, sisters: I don't think so.
Barbara Walters, Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg had a tense discussion on Monday about the use of the N-word. (Watch Part 1 above, and scroll dow...
I could go to painstaking lengths, detailing how deeply offensive and unfunny the repeated and gratuitous use of n**** in The Hangover Part II was, but the damage in large part has already been done.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Patriot's Edition is a new edition of Mark Twain's classic story of boyhood adventure, updated for the 21st ce...
The text of Huckleberry Finn includes more than two hundred instances of the controversial word. But this doesn't say very much about the author himself.
Huckleberry Finn is a product of its time. Hate it, debate it, deplore it, ignore it, but don't take it upon yourself to change it to suit your own mores and values.
Tom Sawyer was bedtime reading for me and my two youngest kids (son and daughter, 7 and 9) at the start of last summer. Of course we all loved it. It ...