Please check out my latest blog for the NAACP site, TheDefendersOnline.com. A sample:
The rhyme he heard the first couple days of his life tickled me right in that spot where I love black word. My husband and dear cousin made merry by twisting standard language around their tongues and working out a fresh way to speak my baby?s name. Black Folk Speak, Black English, as my fellow academics often call it, distinguishes and celebrates our history, our community, our people.