Topic: the n-word

(AP/Getty/Salon)

Donald Trump and the "N-word"

Chauncey DeVega
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Getty/Anna Webber)

Coates on white people using the n-word

Rachel Leah
Donald Trump, Don King (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Sophia Tesfaye
Barack Obama (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

The GOP's "n-word" politics

Chauncey DeVega
Charles Barkley, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby (Reuters/Dominick Reuter/AP/Chris Pizzello/Todd Williamson/Photo montage by Salon)

Chris Rock's poisonous legacy

Mychal Denzel Smith