• The autobiography of comedian and social activist Dick Gregory, co-authored with Robert Lipsyte, nigger was originally published in September 1964 by E...
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    of Dick Gregory (1997) 21st Century "State of the Union" (2001) You Don't Know Dick (2016) Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory, an autobiography written...
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  • short story "The Artificial Nigger". American comedian Dick Gregory used the word in the title of his 1964 autobiography, written during the American...
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  • 1909 play by Edward Sheldon Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory, a book, 1964 Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, a book by Randall Kennedy...
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  • described as a series of reflections. In the preface, Dick Gregory (whose autobiography was entitled Nigger) writes: "In abolishing and rejecting the Caucasian-Christian...
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  • However, it was it was "written by an R.A.F. colleague of Embry's, and thus [does not have] the personal touch of autobiography" according to a review. Published...
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    Award for Best Comedy Album for That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset...
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    students were also protesting that Dean recommended Dick Gregory's autobiography Nigger – though Gregory came to the dean's support. 47°36′32″N 122°19′05″W...
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    Malcolm X (category Deaths by firearm in Manhattan)
    practicing law, his aspiration at the time, was "no realistic goal for a nigger." Later, Malcolm X recalled feeling that the White world offered no place...
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    Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies. Library of America. Gregory, James Monroe (1893). Frederick Douglass the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life;...
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    Eddie Murphy (category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners)
    Kevin Nealon, Kathy Griffin, Tracy Morgan, Joe Piscopo, Jay Pharoah and Dick Gregory. Murphy co-starred with actress Britt Robertson in the drama Mr. Church...
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    Muhammad Ali". He co-authored comedian and social activist Dick Gregory's 1964 autobiography, Nigger. In 1978, Lipsyte was diagnosed with testicular cancer...
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  • American Civil War (1861-1865). The Battle of Gettysburg (1955) The Civil War by Ken Burns (first broadcast on PBS from September 23 to Thursday, September...
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    15-year-old Bieber telling a joke about black people, which used the word "nigger" multiple times. In the same month, a second video showed a 15-year-old...
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    news media's use of the term "Moonies", which they compared with the word "nigger". Abernathy also served as vice president of the Unification Church-affiliated...
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  • Morrissey The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson Autobiographies by Charles...
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  • Emmett Till (category Deaths by beating in the United States)
    could we do? He was hopeless. I'm no bully; I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers—in their place—I know how to work 'em. But I just decided...
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    he said, 'Nigger you like working here?". Long claims Flair never apologized to him and "hasn't changed over the years". Flair engaged in an off-screen...
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    John Lennon (category Deaths by firearm in Manhattan)
    In the US, "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" was released as a single from the album and was televised on 11 May, on The Dick Cavett Show. Many radio...
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    going to start" because they had found out that there was a "damned yellow nigger down here passing for white and the boys are going to get him." Asked what...
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  • said, "went for to tote some rice, and de nigger-driver, he keep a-calling on us; and I say, 'O, de ole nigger-driver!' Den another said, 'First thing my...
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    of the program, Dick Clark, insisted that he alter the lyrics to tone down its violent content. "Stagger Lee" was Price's version of an old blues standard...
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    according to his father, American Indian on his mother's side). (In his autobiography Adam by Adam, Powell says that his mother had partial German ancestry.)...
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    Rap Brown wrote in his autobiography, Die Nigger Die!, that American courts "conspire to commit genocide" against blacks by putting a disproportionate...
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    was also invited to be part of NBC's 2010 Winter Olympics coverage team by Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports. In April 2011, Colbert performed...
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    Clarence Thomas (category United States court of appeals judges appointed by George H. W. Bush)
    I hope the S.O.B. dies" and "[t]hat's what they should do to all the niggers". The display of racism moved Thomas to leave the seminary. He thought...
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  • Ernest Hemingway Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars (France) Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes (Argentina) Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten Two or Three...
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    scene set in a kitchen. "You're out of your mind, I won't sit next to a nigger," Pallette hissed at Preminger. Preminger furiously informed Fox studio...
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  • out an exhibition game at then-minor league Toledo if Toledo's Fleetwood Walker played. Anson backed down, but not before uttering the word nigger on the...
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    Arts in 1973. As a student, Franken wrote comedy and idolized comedians Dick Gregory and Lenny Bruce because they did acts about hypocrisy and corruption...
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