Columns
Monday, July 30 2007
The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance
Our enemy is not the "N-word" itself; it’s whatever propels people to use it. We need healers, not language nannies.
Reviews
Tuesday, July 22 2008
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
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.
Wednesday, August 21 2002
Nigger by Randall Kennedy
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.
