U.S. civil rights group holds funeral for "N-word" http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0929653620070709?sp=true
Mon Jul 9, 2007
By Kevin Krolicki
DETROIT (Reuters) - Demonstrators marched in a mock funeral procession through downtown Detroit on Monday in a symbolic burial of the "N-word" and an effort to persuade black Americans to stop using a variant of the racial slur in hip-hop music, comedy and casual conversation. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0929653620070709?sp=true