The teacher framed the discussion around the n-word as "one of the most derogatory and offensive slurs against any racial or ...

Neal Lester has never been called a ni**er. But his Italian wife was once called a “ni**er-lover.” “We were just friends at the time, but people assume when they see a black man and a white woman that ...

A Pennsylvania professor is under school investigation after he was caught on video saying the N-word three times in a class. “When I was a young man, that was a very commonly used word. You know what ...

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All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

The University of Oklahoma admonished a professor after he tried to compare a popular putdown with a racial slur in a journalism class Tuesday. Peter Gade, who has been on the school's faculty since ...

If wordplay were an Olympic sport, rising Yale sophomore Caleb Madison would be packing his bags for London. Indeed, during its coverage of the Olympic games this summer, NBC will profile Madison, ...