The Language Lane

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

In March 1969, the Fisk graduate made a literary splash in New York City as she promoted her new volume of poetry, Black Judgement ....

While operating within a lifelong lyrical odyssey, his journey to build “roads of odes” (22), Sterling Plumpp checks in with his new...