Weather forecasters at the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and this very news organization had a name for the kind of storm that upended daily life for residents of the Northeast US this ...

Google has apologized for publishing a news alert on the recent N-word outburst at the Bafta awards that outrageously included the slur. The post promoted an article about an audience member with ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a term for “that last bit of dessert or food that people are too ...

After an attendee at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) who experiences involuntary verbal tics yelled out the n-word toward Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, many viewers were left with ...

Doing the work of an educator is tiring. Doing it right is even more tiring. A few months ago, I felt this degree of exhaustion before returning from winter break. It was the Friday before we were ...

Sinners production designer Hannah Beachler has criticized Alan Cumming’s on-stage apology after the N-word was shouted by a Tourette’s campaigner during the BAFTA Film Awards. Cumming briefly paused ...

MANILA, Philippines — There appears to be no ceasefire in sight between lawmakers and the Chinese embassy, with both trading barbs before the weekend over the recent Senate resolution condemning ...

Sir, – Recently President Catherine Connolly sought to promote the idea that our native tongue is endowed with a greater facility than our spoken language when it comes to delivering the right word ...

The absence of war. Quiet time after the kids go to bed. Surf hitting sand at the beach. The word evokes multiple moods and meanings. A couple of weeks ago, it made headlines as Oxford University ...

Students at Florida A&M University's College of Law were initially told they could not use the word "Black" on flyers for Black History Month. University officials ...

If you can’t use the word Black in Black History Month…is it just History Month? That’s the question Aaliyah Steward, a Florida A&M University law student, is asking herself after the HBCU gave her ...