#black vernacular

[sbrown82]

I love the way Black people used to talk in the 70s! ✊🏿

[sbrown82]

[sbrown82]

This is peak caucasity! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

[mstmitchell]

[aj-ofmars]

"It's the _ for me"

Stop. Your fear of missing out killed it.

[nikigbo]

Black History Month: Why do we (I) code switch?

Black History Month: Why do we (I) code switch?

I’m a writer, so I have a thing for words–both written and spoken.

I used to be crazy about this one guy I met in college—we’ll call him Sed. Sed was something more than a friend but not quite a romantic interest. A buddy with whom I could just be. We loved rapping the lyrics to Scenariotogether, taking slow walks to K&B to buy candy bars, and having the campus computer lab all to ourselves in…

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[profkew]

Zora Neale Hurston's editor for 'Barracoon' explains why authentic black language matters | Elizabeth Wellington

Author Deborah G. Plant will discuss Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Tuesday as part of WHY's The Great American Read.

[It matters] because [African American] grammar is a celebration of yourself.  You start picking up the grammatical structure of your people from the moment that you are born. Many feel it is formulated in your brain when you are still in your mother’s womb.

It defines your worldview, everything you understand about your world, the relationship between yourself, your people, your spirituality.

The words are superficial. Your grammar is real.

We haven’t taught this to our young people. They, we, are not aware of how our grammar and syntax is part of a rich history that people try to erase. This is why [Zora Neale] Hurston’s work is so important. She captures it. She keeps it alive.