Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Walter Edwards, an English professor at Wayne State University, noted, "African American Vernacular English is a dialect born from conflict and creativity." Anti-literacy laws prohibited Black ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Image source, Black Country Living Museum Image caption, The Black Country Living Museum helps to preserve the dialect through their immersive storytelling. At The Black County Living Museum where ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to augment traditional written documents with visual, sonic, dramatic, and multimedia ...

When David Player ’19 (sociology/anthropology) was a student at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in 2015, he became fascinated with how race, identity, and language, specifically sign ...