The Language Lane

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...

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