For the second time in less than a year, San Diego State University has reassigned a teacher for using racially charged language in the classroom. The new incident involves J. Angelo Corlett, a ...

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Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant ...

The article is co-written by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me. It's at 49 Capital University Law Review 1, and you can read it here. A short excerpt that ...

The Los Angeles City Council approved new rules Wednesday banning speakers from using a racial slur and an obscene term for a woman during council and committee meetings. In a 14-0 vote, council ...

From a decision earlier this month in Byrd v. Middletown Bd. of Ed., by Connecticut trial court Judge Sheila Ozalis; Byrd was a teacher who "was teaching a lesson on 'recognizing racial epithets' as a ...

Transferred aggression is a negative trait – even when born out of frustration. Proverbially speaking, it is like victimising the hen at home because a sparrow devoured one’s corn in the farm. So, one ...

It's not a ban. And the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network isn't calling for rappers and other artists to stop using the words. But the group has come out with a statement saying terms like the n-word, ...