Comedian Richard Pryor performs on stage at the Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl on Sept. 19, 1977. Lennox McLendon/Associated Press
Lennox McLendon/Associated Press
Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has spent much of her career tracing the N-word through slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and hip-hop. But what she didn’t tell her audiences was that her father, Richard Pryor, was the comedian who put the word at the center of American comedy in the 1970s.
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