New York City bans racial slur
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New York City symbolically banned use of the word nigger on Wednesday, the latest step in a campaign that hopes to expunge the most vile of racial slurs from hip hop music and television.
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A city councilman says he hears it over and over on the streets of New York City: young people casually addressing each other using a racial slur that has a painful history intertwined with slavery.
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The city's bid to force cyclists to obtain permits before their monthly bicycle rally through Manhattan was dismissed Thursday by a federal judge.
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A ban on a racial epithet after the Michael Richards affair leads to a soul-searching debate.
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In a Chroncle editorial titled "The Jews", Trinity senior Philip Kurian has created a global uproar.  The editorial complains that Jews are, as a community of special interest, stifling free speech.  The response of the Jewish community to this oped has been to stifle free speech.
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Marshall University football coach Bob Pruett has apologized for using a term some consider a racial slur, a newspaper reported. In his weekly news conference leading up to Saturday&#39;s game, Pruett called the
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The city's decision to deny a permit to protesters for a rally on Central Park's Great Lawn on the weekend before the Republican National Convention is about preserving the lawn, not suppressing speech, lawyers for the city said in federal court Friday.
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Thousands of cyclists snarled traffic in New York on Friday night and police said they arrested more than 250 people and confiscated their bicycles in the first significant
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By LYNN ELBER LOS ANGELES - A barrage of racial epithets unleashed by former &quot;Seinfeld&quot; star Michael Richards during a stand-up comedy routine drew condemnation from Richards' industry colleagues.
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Travel: City office of civil rights overturns bar's ban on badly dressed tourists calling it discriminatory.
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The city's ban on trans fat-laden cooking oils, the first of its kind in the nation, went into effect Sunday.
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State Supreme Court judge ruled today that New York City can ban protesters from using the Great Lawn in Central Park on Sunday for a rally, the largest planned for the Republican National Convention, according to The Associated Press.
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By JEFF KAROUB DETROIT - An officer who arrested a man for cursing in a public meeting violated the man's right to free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The 6th U.S.
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A proposal to eliminate "some other race" as an option on the 2010 census has stirred a furious debate.
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Â· Cosmetic giant fined for recruitment campaign Â· First big French firm to be convicted of racial bias
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Australian cricketing bodies announce a new anti-racism policy, but calling the English "poms" is ruled acceptable.
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Andy Dick has apologized for using the same racial slur that got ex-"Seinfeld" star Michael Richards in trouble last month.