The Language Lane

The success of the excellent movie American Fiction has brought renewed attention to Percival Everett’s Erasure, the 2001 novel on which...

When I saw a teenage Beyoncé play the lead in Carmen: A Hip Hopera, which was made for MTV, I figured there was no limit to how big a...

As I turned back into the Language Lane, I was reminded of the continual vibrancy of African American Language when I was watching the...