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The president received a tepid response while addressing hundreds of top military officials at Quantico on Tuesday Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

President Donald Trump referenced a racial slur during a meeting with top U.S. military leaders in Virginia on Tuesday, Sept. 30. During a 72-minute speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Trump said he ...

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TULSA — Teens are discussing one of the most controversial words in history. The "N-word" is used in movies, music and seen on social media. But it commonly gets thrown around in schools. 2 Works For ...

When I read the op-ed by Claremont McKenna professor Christopher Nadon in The Wall Street Journal discussing what he believes are sanctions he’s received for using the full utterance of the N-word in ...

Words are never just "words." You are very right that context matters though. Context in the moment of use can shift a meaning yes, but rarely entirely, and never without losing the weight of its ...

It’s hard to imagine a more cynical marketing ploy than the one Pantheon Books devised for Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy’s new work, which arrived in bookstores last week. In the transparent ...

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 ...