The Language Lane

Only on rereading Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea for my course on African American Autobiography did I ponder name and geography...

Once I was at a composition conference headquartered in downtown Nashville. Some colleagues and I, having never seen Fisk University,...

In the club of ethnic labeling, BIPOC tryna get it in. The term Black, Indigenous and People of Color is a well-meaning attempt in...

I missed a good speech on September 15, 1970. The person that gave it, Chuck Scott, as we knew him, was a childhood friend, my next-door...

It is fairly easy to see that white nationalism is largely an expression of fascist impulses. It would be hard not to when...

The virtuoso poet Audre Lorde opened her popular poem “Power” with the following lines: The difference between poetry and rhetoric is...