Connecticut School Official, Objecting to Racial Term, Wants to Block Wilson Play

NYTimes.com: "The schools superintendent in Waterbury, Conn., is seeking to shut down a production of one of August Wilson’s great dramas, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” because some of the teenage actors would have to utter the word “nigger” as called for in the script, according to a report in the city’s Republican-American newspaper.