Except Niger was spelled wrong.
Wasn't it CNN who spelled "Niger Ellis" wrong on a screen cap?
Bet they didn't get sued
Etymology: Ultimately from the adjective niger, meaning “black”. Most of the Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc) have the word “negro” meaning “black” (in colour) derived from the Latin “niger”. During the period in America’s history when black workers were shipped to America to work as slaves, this word came to be adopted from the Hispanic South American languages to describe a person of dark skin. Essentially, a “negro” person simply means a “black” person. Through constant repetition of the Spanish word in the American accent, it seems likely that the word was corrupted from “negro” to “niggero” to simply “nigger”.