The Language Lane

Rough action on the language front as Donald Trump continues to fire directives from his right-wing playbook. First, he issued an...

Author’s Note: The Promise of Language has a different purpose than my previous memoir writing, most notably Voices of the Self: A Study...

If, as a young Ebonics speaker and gospel-inflected and sermon-inflected Jocko lover in Harlem, I learned the standardized prescriptions...