The slur, which has been used to discriminate against people with disabilities, is finding popularity online again. But its ...

People with learning disabilities and intellectual disorders were asking everyone else to stop using the r-word to describe them or even to make jokes. No more, “Bro, that movie’s so dumb ...

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 ...

In a recent episode of his highly influential podcast, Joe Rogan declared what he sees as the latest triumph in the cultural battle over language: the return of the “R-word.” “ ...

For a decade, disability advocates led a concerted effort to stomp out use of the word “retard.” Now they’re concerned that the language appears to be making a comeback. Online, in popular culture and ...

Over the past few years, Brittany has noticed the resurgence of the R-word - a word that otherwise left the cultural lexicon. And while that's... The R-word is back. But why? Over the past few ...

Glo R illa is facing backlash for using the “R” word in an unreleased song she plated on social media. On the track, which she played earlier this week, she raps “Me and my b*tch r*****d.” ...

This is how far they’d come: After years of campaigning against the “r-word,” advocates with Special Olympics decided they should avoid educating elementary school children about the slur ...

Using the R-word is vulgar, hateful and immature behavior. It must stop. It would have been about 57 years ago. I was a first grader at Madison Elementary School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. My mom would ...

C word but crying about the R word?” Check out the updated version of the track presumably titled “Hollonnnn” below, followed by the original. Lizzo apologized for a similar lyrical gaffe in ...

More than 312,000 subsequent posts made on X in that span contained the r-word, wrote co-author Bond Benton, a professor of communication at the New Jersey university. The buck didn’t stop there ...