Warning: This story includes repeated mentions of the N-word.

Nova Scotia’s Education Department has removed a short story from an online Grade 12 English course after a parent raised concerns and CBC News inquired about the text's repeated use of a racist term for Black people.

The fact that Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story The Killers — which contains the N-word 12 times — was offered as an independent reading option has ignited anger and disbelief from some members of the Black community, …