PHILADELPHIA — There are times in court when Qawi Abdul-Rahman, a Center City-based defense attorney, gets the sense that folks listening didn’t understand a piece of testimony. “You get it all the ...

“He don’t be in that neighborhood.” When one court reporter in Philadelphia transcribed that phrase, it turned into this: “We going to be in this neighborhood.” In other words, the opposite of what ...

From New York to Los Angeles, people everywhere develop speech patterns unique to their region; however, these varied dialects are discriminated against at times. While this phenomenon is nothing new, ...

Should black children learn white dialect? / Joan C. Baratz -- Section B : Negro dialect, the last barrier to integration / Gordon C. Green -- "F'get you honky!" : a new look at black dialect and the ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Educators at Lucy Craft Laney Elementary in north Minneapolis know it’s a controversial topic, but invite you to listen to their own linguistic revolution, honoring the home dialect of ...

Friends had been telling me I needed to read “James,” the best-selling novel by Percival Everett that revisits “Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the character Jim. They said I would be ...

Poor Mesa Arts Center. They plan to host a kickass runway show called “The Black Dialect: When Fashion Speaks.” Then Game Change hits bookstores and explodes Harry Reid’s awkward-yet-valid ...

A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of the most memorable characters in American Literature. Why it matters: For ...

The Black Country dialect has become the subject of a DVD and game to help change its perception. The West Bromwich digital media organisation LearnPlay Foundation won Heritage Lottery funding to ...