Comic legend Richard Pryor used the n-word so much during his standup routines that he once said, “I said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.” Yet one of the most notorious examples ...

Comedy fans who grew up on blurry VHS copies of the stand-up classic will be awed by a new release that showcases the nuances of Pryor's delivery as well as Wexler's dynamic camerawork. The problem is ...

Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has spent her career tracing the racial slur, the N-word, through slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and hip hop. But what she didn't tell most of her ...

Jennifer Lee Pryor grapples with boundary-pushing comic's legacy in the age of cancel culture; says he would have continued ...

Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor spent years researching the racial slur, but never revealed that her father was the legendary comic who used it... Richard Pryor's daughter studies the N-word — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The problem is that those VHS copies, as well as the blurry transfers on cable television where “Sunset Strip” was a staple for ...