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 ...

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While Jack Johnson is probably the most famous black fighter of the early twentieth century, the white hegemony in boxing started to flake at the edges almost 10 years before his debut. While the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- Employees of the Class A Brooklyn Cyclones, a New York Mets affiliate, arrived at work Wednesday morning to find swastikas and racial and anti-Semitic epithets painted on a statue of ...

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 ...