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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles City Council approved new rules Wednesday banning speakers from using a racial slur and an obscene term for a woman during council and committee meetings. In a 14-0 vote, council ...