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Southern accents are fading in cities like Atlanta and New Orleans—reshaped by migration, culture shifts, and time.
Apparently, some terms like "knuckle sandwich" are so good that they cross generations and might live as long as the…
Dr. Aisha Cort is an Afro-Latina Spanish lecturer at Howard teaching students to speak a language that has become more…
Black Twitter, a social media landscape, is noticeably influential in adding new words to the American lexicon, according to a…
Over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, you may have noticed GOP nominee Donald Trump referring to black and Latino
A third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary has filed a discrimination suit against her school district claiming that she was denied
theGRIO REPORT - Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston has been suspended for the first half of this weekend's game against…
theGRIO REPORT - This case could mean that when commiserating with their coworkers black people may need to be much…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state panel has proposed striking segregationist language from Alabama's 1901 constitution that mandates separate schools…
OPINION - However improbably, two of the week's biggest stories – the self-inflicted travails of Paula Deen and the trial…
OPINION - Even if Jay-Z, Kanye, or President Obama were to sign off on a permission slip for all of…
Five-year-old Mabou Loiseau's parents spend $1,500 a week on tutors and lessons...
WATERBURY, Connecticut (AP) - It is the essence of black pain, yet many African-Americans use it with pride, like a…
OPINION - The DEA may not have known the full ramifications of its decision to label the language of many…
ATLANTA (AP) - Linguists say Ebonics can be trickier than it seems, partly because the vocabulary evolves so quickly....
The exhibit is also a celebration of the Gullah people who continue to thrive, despite years of oppression...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Politicians in Haiti traditionally speak mainly Creole and French -- the latter for many things being…
"This is just one more indication of the incredible anti-immigrant sentiment in the state," said Bruce Merrill, a professor emeritus…