Black Language News Today

UCR Magazine's spring issue highlights how UC Riverside professors are embracing and incorporating Spanglish and Black Language in education; the rediscovered Riverside citrus paintings of artist Elsie Lower Pomeroy; the world's first sighting of a newborn great white shark; and more.

Researchers are working to preserve Black languages like African American English and Black American Sign Language and reduce stigma around them.

Ebonics is making a comeback in a racist form. April Baker-Bell, associate professor of language, literacy, and English education at Michigan State University, identified a so-called barrier that African Americans face in pursuing the American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: li

A black professor says it is racist to expect black students to write in English that generally is understood by their white teachers.

In this op-ed, Boston University writing instructors argue that linguistic diversity needs to be recognized as a key part of diversity and inclusion

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Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

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January 25, 2021 African American English derives from a historical past of contact between multiple language speakers. It varies across age, ethnicity, class, and gender. There is more than one AAE. Iryna Alekseienko/iStock via Getty Images Plus African descendants in the U.S. have been speaking varieties of English, today known as African American Language (AAL), for many centuries. While not all Black people speak AAL, many do. Think you know all there is to know about the language? Think ag...

Sum up your podcast in three sentences This is a podcast about people and how they talk. About languages, and how they refuse to be controlled. About why there is no such thing as bad grammar, no language is more important than any other language, and every voice is valid. Who is your ideal listener? Who loves your show? My ideal listener is probably someone who is interested in people, but doesn’t yet know that they’re interested in language too. Those are the people I really want to draw ...