Smith College Associate Professor of History, Dr. Elizabeth Pryor, has been researching the complicated history and importance of the N-Word. She has delved into her own history with the word as her father, Richard Pryor, famously used and famously disavowed the word’s use. But when this word actually took hold as a racial slur rather than a way of identifying members of a community may surprise you.

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