A Grade 6 teacher at Dunsmuir Middle School in Colwood, B.C., is the subject of a complaint saying she read the N-word aloud five times during a lesson for Black History Month. (David Bajer/CBC) ...

The N-word appears 23 times in the Book of Negroes, he said. “Black writers . . . go to this word because it is part of our lived experience,” Hill said.