Ebonics

Cecil Brown wants to digitally revive the enslaved antebellum poet George Moses Horton. Can digital technology help reconnect us to the tradition he embodied?

How did the controversial term go from middle-school slang to verboten? The answer lies on the other side of the Atlantic.

From Phillis Wheatley to Lil Uzi Vert, Black names and their evolution tell the story of America.

Cartoons have often been considered exempt from the country’s prejudices. In fact, they form a genre built on the marble and mud of racial signification.

Is the unique dialect a vestige of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?

From the beginning of the recording industry, many voices have been suppressed and significant cultural history has been lost to prudery and censorship.

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns.

Can it be produced without controversy?

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

It happens every year.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.

Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

A web dictionary devoted to historical English slang—five hundred years of the vulgar tongue.

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.