The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance

By Mark Reynolds

Our enemy is not the "N-word" itself; it’s whatever propels people to use it. We need healers, not language nannies. [30 July 2007]

(more Negritude 2.0)

Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

By Mark Reynolds

Notable figures from Diana Ross to Barack Obama have been slapped with the "s-word" at some point or another for any number of real or imagined offenses. [22 July 2008]

Nigger by Randall Kennedy

By James Withers

If hip-hop is as American as apple pie, then the language it uses, a language that some call coarse and others call authentic has become the currency of hipness and modernity. [21 August 2002]