Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black man arrives on a slave ship 300 years ago, knowing one English word: "Nigger." It is, or might as well be, his New World name. But Niger, the river, is his origin, his blood flow, which Calvin Baker, 24, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, traces through generations to the brackish wash of present time. Naming the New World (St. Martin's Press; 118 pages; $18.95) is a writer's gamble, a brief, fast-changing swirl of prose sketches, prose-poetry, and poetry standing naked. Such a recitation--it could be chanted, to drum beats, in an evening--might dissipate...
...what Jerry told investigative reporter George McMillan, author of The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray, 21 years ago. According to McMillan, Jerry told him that on the morning of the murder, his brother telephoned him and said he was going to get "the big nigger" that very same day. Like his brother, Jerry later changed his story and claimed James Earl was the fall guy in a plot led by a mystery man named Raoul...
...last year White was tested. His Inner City Church was burned to the ground by arsonists who used kerosene, gunpowder and at least 18 Molotov cocktails. They left behind messages that read DIE NIGGER and DIE NIGGER LOVERS. White isn't too thrilled with Tennesseans' tepid response to Inner City's rebuilding campaign, nor is he happy about insinuations by government agencies that the church itself was involved. What does please him, though, is the support he has received in Wisconsin. So far $300,000 has been raised in the state; one child sent in 99[cents] taped...
...Robert V. Beale, attorney of Bob Crumpler, whose Virginia car dealership franchise is being revoked by Nissan after he was secretly videotaped referring to a black employee as a "nigger...
...victims' families will recall him to the stand to answer friendlier questions when they present their case. But as in the criminal trial, it may be hard to recognize a defining moment when it actually occurs. Detective Mark Fuhrman's testimony that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years at first fell with an anticlimactic thud; it was only later, when he was revealed as a liar, that the case shattered open. Simpson may find himself caught in a similar trap. For if his testimony is right, so many people--and so much evidence--must...