In his lyrics, the folksinger and herald of US postwar social struggles described his era. In some ways, it resembles our own ...

The Atlanta rapper’s post-RICO comeback album feels engineered for virality and not much else. Even in wounded Southern pain ...

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A group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images For ...

Only in America By Mike Puma Special to ESPN.com "I found out that someone I believed was my surrogate father, my brother, my blood figure turns out t ...

San Diego teacher Amy Glancy thought she’d prepared her fourth-grade students for the day’s language arts lesson. She knew there was a land mine in the poem she planned to read, but she considered it ...

Supporters and attorneys for the Arbery family stand outside the Glynn County Courthouse on Jan. 7, 2022, after the sentences are announced for the three men convicted of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. ...

I s it acceptable for pedagogical purposes to enunciate the epithet “nigger”? The question is topical because of a string of incidents in which professors have been condemned, disciplined, even fired ...

“White” is an unsensual word. Where other terms that begin with the same consonants sound whimsical—“whiff” or “whiskers” or, well, “whimsical”—“white” coldly whistles. Even without the distinctly ...

Dr. McWhorter is a linguist who has written extensively about both race and language. He is the author, most recently, of “Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter,” from which this guest essay is ...

YOU CANNOT go far in Australia without stumbling on a spot named after an act of colonial violence. The continent is dotted with Massacre Bays, Deadman’s Creeks and Murdering Gullies. Suicide Bay, in ...