The R-word is making a comeback. Credit: Mashable illustration / Stacey Zhu Once pushed to the margins of acceptable language thanks to campaigns like "Spread the Word to End the Word," the R-word all ...

Its effect can be explosive and painful: Harvard University professor Randall Kennedy has traced the history of the N-word to understand the evolution of the infamous racial slur. Kennedy joins ...

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Sometimes, it takes a single word — like "because" — to change someone's mind. That's according to Jonah Berger, a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who's ...

Kambale Musavuli (left), who is a native of the Democratic Reublic of Congo, is a human rights advocate. His friend Ishmael Beah (right) is a Sierra Leonean human rights activist and author of “A Long ...