Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The everyday brilliance, artistry, creativity and ingenuity of Black folk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

When it was announced last spring that the Oxford Dictionary of African American English was in the works, I thought about the times a Black colleague and I would commiserate about how White copy ...

NMAF copy 39088014422760 is a bequest from the library of William C. Sturtevant. An investigation of the ways in which Black English differs from other varieties of American English, arguing that the ...

One of the more interesting book notices to come our way this past year was an announcement about a book by a local author called What the Word BE: Why Black English is the King’s (James) English.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test ...