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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — A California judge ruled Friday that a San Diego philosophy professor can continue to argue his constitutional violation claims that he was wrongfully disciplined by his university ...

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In a new lawsuit, Justin Bieber has been accused of using "racial epithets" during a fight that took place outside a Cleveland hotel in 2016 Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego philosophy professor can’t claim that his rights were violated when he was disciplined for using sexist epithets during class after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that his ...

From Friday's decision by Judge Michael Watson (S.D. Ohio) in Sullivan v. Ohio State Univ.: American public universities have traditionally "prided themselves on being forums where controversial ideas ...

Nobody condones the racial epithets used toward black lawmakers on Saturday, the second-ranking House Republican said Sunday. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) disavowed the actions by some ...

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 ...