Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began researching and teaching what academics call African ... in any of our American dialects.

Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of ...

Written in African American dialect, the poem showcases Dunbar ... “G’way an’ quit dat noise, Miss Lucy, / Put dat music book away.” This poem is a celebration of the natural musicality ...

The African American Literature Book Club has launched the BLK Bestseller List, showcasing the bestselling books by Black ...

Mellon director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture ... then became a poet in a whole other language, then traveled back across the Atlantic to see that book .

Entries will be woven together from materials gathered from crowdsourcing, social media, books ... African American communities have impacted the way people speak all over the world. Language ...

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 ...