Podcasts about black english

This edWeb podcast is co-hosted by CORE Learning and The Reading LeagueYou can access the webinar recording here.Black English is a linguistically rich and rule-governed language, yet traditional reading instruction often overlooks or even works against it. How can educators teach reading in a way that builds strong literacy skills without disregarding the language students bring to the classroom?This fourth edWeb podcast of the Structured Literacy for Every Learner Summit explores how Structured Literacy provides explicit instruction while affirming Black English as a legitimate and valuable language. Experts share evidence-based approaches to teaching foundational skills without treating Black English as a deficit. Listeners learn:How Black English and literacy development intersectWhat evidence says about teaching reading in ways that respect linguistic identityHow to create affirming classrooms where Black English speakers feel valued and supportedK-12 educators and administrators will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to honor students' language while helping them grow as confident readers.This edWeb podcast is part of the Structured Literacy for Every Learner Summit.CORE LearningTransform teaching and learning so that every student thrives.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by CORE Learning.The webinar recording can be accessed here.Too often, Black Language is treated as something to “correct” rather than recognized as a legitimate language system with its own rules, grammar, and structure. This mindset reflects deeply ingrained beliefs and attitudes that not only undermine students' linguistic heritage but also limit the effectiveness of structured literacy by overlooking the linguistic strengths Black Language-speaking students bring to their learning.In this third session of CORE Learning's Structured Literacy and Language Diversity Week: Fall ‘24 Series, Dr. Jasmine Rogers—a leading expert on Black Language and the Science of Reading—explains how even a few hours of instruction on Black English can help teachers recognize unconscious bias and enhance structured literacy instruction. Drawing from her classroom experience and research, she challenges the outdated belief that Black English hinders academic success and demonstrates how affirming it as an asset enables students to build on their knowledge, boosting literacy skills and confidence.By listening to this edWeb podcast, you gain evidence-based instructional practices that empower you to:Reflect on and adjust your beliefs and attitudes toward Black LanguageSupport Black Language-speaking students by leveraging their linguistic strengthsAddress unconscious bias to foster a more inclusive classroom environmentMake your literacy instruction more reflective of students' lived experiencesLearn how even small shifts in your beliefs, attitudes, and literacy approach can lead to meaningful improvements. This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders.CORE LearningTransform teaching and learning so that every student thrives.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.

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Neste episódio do Speaking in Brazil, falamos sobre os segredos por trás da habilidade fenomenal do tecahre Rodrigo Honorato em imitar uma ampla gama de sotaques em inglês e português. Com foco na importância da pronúncia compreensível, Rodrigo compartilha sua jornada e os desafios enfrentados ao longo do caminho. Além disso, dá uma verdadeira aula sobre o mundo do "Black English", comparando-o com o inglês padrão. Falamos sobre questões sensíveis, como o uso da "n word" e expressões populares como "ain't" e "imma". Com recomendações de filmes e músicas para impulsionar seu aprendizado, esta entrevista é um tesouro de conhecimento para aspirantes a poliglotas. Check it out! Saiba mais sobre o English in Brazil: https://eibrazil.com/linkdabio

There are countless English varieties in the U.S. There's Boston English and California English and Texas English. There's Black English and Chicano English. There's standard academic, or white, English. They're all the same language, but linguistically, they're different."Standard academic English is most represented by affluent white males from the Midwest, specifically Ohio in the mid-20th century," says UC Berkeley sociolinguist Justin Davidson. "If you grow up in this country and your English is further away from that variety, then you may encounter instances where the way you speak is judged as less OK, less intelligent, less academically sound."And this language bias and divide can have devastating consequences, as it did in the trial of George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012. This is the second episode of a three-part series with Davidson about language in the U.S. Listen to the first episode: "A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish."Listen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu/podcasts).Music by Blue Dot Sessions.AP photo by Jacob Langston. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Florida changed its Black history curriculum and removed books from public schools… first-time Tampa city councilwoman Gwen Henderson pushed back and opened a bookstore. Florida Matters visited Henderson at the bookstore she runs in Tampa Heights with her daughter Ariel. It's called “Black English.” Henderson, who wears a ball cap covered in buttons- Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Florida A&M University and others, says her mission is to elevate books by Black authors, especially graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs. We sat down to talk about being an educator, books, politics and her priorities for the district she represents.

As Florida changed its Black history curriculum and removed books from public schools… first-time Tampa city councilwoman Gwen Henderson pushed back and opened a bookstore. Florida Matters visited Henderson at the bookstore she runs in Tampa Heights with her daughter Ariel. It's called “Black English.” Henderson, who wears a ball cap covered in buttons- Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Florida A&M University and others, says her mission is to elevate books by Black authors, especially graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs. We sat down to talk about being an educator, books, politics and her priorities for the district she represents.

This week, we talk with two Black women who are leaders in the community and who have each taken a different approach to politics. Former State Senator Arthenia Joyner was the first Black woman to serve as Senate Minority leader in the Florida legislature. We'll hear from her later in the program. And long time educator Gwen Henderson is a first time Tampa City Council member and owner of Black English bookstore in Tampa Heights, which she opened last December. We visited Black English bookstore to talk with Henderson about being an educator, books, politics and her priorities for the district she represents. Later in the program, we sit down with Joyner for a conversation about politics, civil rights, and her trailblazing career as a lawyer and state lawmaker.

This week, we talk with two Black women who are leaders in the community and who have each taken a different approach to politics. Former State Senator Arthenia Joyner was the first Black woman to serve as Senate Minority leader in the Florida legislature. We'll hear from her later in the program. And long time educator Gwen Henderson is a first time Tampa City Council member and owner of Black English bookstore in Tampa Heights, which she opened last December. We visited Black English bookstore to talk with Henderson about being an educator, books, politics and her priorities for the district she represents. Later in the program, we sit down with Joyner for a conversation about politics, civil rights, and her trailblazing career as a lawyer and state lawmaker.

In this thought-provoking conversation, we are joined by the remarkable Shawna Coppola, the author of "Literacy for All: A Framework for Anti-Oppressive Teaching". Shawna is a seasoned expert in the field of child and adolescent literacy, ready to challenge our conventional understanding of literacy practices. Shawna will take us on a journey beyond the confining norms of the current literacy discourse, which is too often limited to white mainstream perspectives, to uncover the vast dimensions of literacy that include non-written texts and are deeply influenced by social and cultural contexts. As our discussion unfolds, Shawna will shed light on the perils of overlooking the diversity of language and literacy practices—emphasizing how standardized tests like Dibbles can inequitably impact students who speak in dialects such as Black English. We'll delve into the necessity of implementing anti-oppressive literacy frameworks that truly reflect the varying student populations within our schools. Join us as we explore with Shawna the powerful intersection of literacy and identity, sharing personal anecdotes and illuminating the real-life repercussions of data that doesn't capture the intricacies of our students' skills and experiences. Plus, we'll hear Shawna's own educational journey and the ongoing learning that shapes her work, along with an invitation to connect and learn more about her new book, "Literacy for All." You're in for a session full of insight, so prepare to be inspired and challenged as we discuss how to move towards a more inclusive, supportive, and comprehensive literacy education. Grab your notebooks, listeners, it's time to turn the page to a new chapter in egalitarian education. Welcome to Our Classroom! Shawna Coppola, M. Ed. Reading, is an expert in child and adolescent literacy, including practices that support a diverse range of writing and writers. An educator for over twenty years, Shawna has worked as a middle school language arts teacher, a children's librarian, and a K-6 literacy specialist/coach. In addition to working with students, Shawna has led courses and workshops for K-12 educators through the University of New Hampshire's NH Literacy Institutes as well as their Professional Development and Training program and has spoken at a variety of local, regional, and national conferences.

THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy becomes a Middlesex member, and Toby finds himself hopelessly out of his depth "We have a running joke that our shirts are our best player. This has come back to bite us in the arse: bonus points for wearing the same shirt got us promoted up a division." FROM THE ARCHIVES (11'10): The One Ball Walkout: Transvaal vs the Rest of South Africa, 3 April 1971 "We create so many assorted reasons for play to stop, that you do become slightly immune as a spectator..." THE REVIEW (20'35): You Guys are History: The Story of England's Black Cricketers (2021) "Phil DeFreitas talks about getting ready to bowl and thinking about the sniper threatened by The National Front." Recorded 10 December 2023

Welcome to "Let There Be Pod," the podcast that celebrates AC/DC, the world's greatest and best rock and roll band of the last 50 years.  This a Norwegian podcast created by longtime AC/DC fans Erik Sexe Andersen and Gunnar Gundersen.  But this time we wanted to do something special. Our guest in this episode is BB from the band "BACK:N:BLACK - The Girls Who Play AC/DC." A few weeks back, BB and her band came all the way from Switzerland and played at a festival not too far from Norways capital city, Oslo. So, we decided to attend the festival, experience their live performance, and of course, meet BB in person. Since BACK:N:BLACK  has a more international audience than our podcast, we also wanted to create a shorter version of the episode in English. We wanted as many people as possible to be part of BB's story, to learn how she became a fan of AC/DC, and how she ended up in an all-girl band that pays tribute to AC/DC. BB's passion for the band truly shines through in the interview and especially on stage. So, having BB on "Let There Be Pod" was a perfect fit.

In Episode 51, we discuss Black American English, also known as AAVE, as a way to consider some of the differences between identitarian and identity politics approaches. Black American English is minority dialect in the United States of America. The identitarian approach to protecting Black American English typically involves appropriation discourse and the restriction of who can use Black American English on the basis of racial idenity. We offer another approach, one based in identity politics, which treats Black American English as a minority language deserving of legal protection and recognition. This approach does not restrict who can learn or speak Black American English, but does insist there are correct and incorrect ways to speak it, and, more importantly, focuses on the rights of native Black American English speakers, regardless of racial identity.    SHOW NOTES: Could Black English Mean a Prison Sentence? by John McWhorter: "An upcoming study in the linguistics journal Language found that 27 Philadelphia [court] stenographers, presented with recordings of Black English grammatical patterns, made transcription errors on average in two out of every five sentences, and could accurately paraphrase only one in three sentences." Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: Black Like Us Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: What Had Happened Was Storytelling Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: White Author, Black English. Problem? Quebec's Charter of the French Language Aboriginal Language Knowledge and Youth Suicide: "Youth suicide rates effectively dropped to zero in those few communities in which at least half the band members reported a conversational knowledge of their own Native language." Indigenous Language Organizations and Initiatives   Follow Fucking Cancelled on Patreon & Instagram. Find merch on our BigCartel. Also check out Clementine's website and Jay's website. Theme song by ST x LIAM. Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. Free transcripts are added on Patreon as they become available.

In this episode, we will talk about movies that have taught me a plethora of things that have really made a difference in my career and also in my learning process. I will never say I learned English because I am not done yet. So, I'd rather say: I have been learning English because this is work in progress. So, are you ready to find out what movies y'all should watch to learn more about Black English?

Show notes:  Dionne Draper and Lisa Marie-Simmons bring you DAWTA The Podcast, Episode 3 with a special focus on the Black, Male TRA (Transracial Adoptee) experience and a wider focus on Black, Male Mental Health.  Robert Lewtas is a transracial adoptee living in London and works as an accountant for a large theatre producer. He is a proud father who identifies as Black English..though others might disagree! Michael Earle is an award winning wellbeing consultant, international speaker, mental health practitioner and certified Nordic Walking instructor. He lives in Bristol with his wife Joanne. Michael is a great advocate of self-care, and his mission is to inspire people to make their well-being a non-negotiable priority. SPECIAL OFFER!! Michael is offering the first three people that email him after  listening  to the episode a free thirty minute wellbeing check-up call. Research - Journal of social distress and the homeless, Vol. 0 No. 0, Month, 2015, 1–16 The emotional labor of playing cool: How Black male transracial adoptees find ways to cope within predominantly White settings. Darron T. Smith:The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, USA  Ghost Kingdom - Coined by Betty Jean Lipton, an influential psychologist who specializes in adoption therapy and fought for adoption reform, the Ghost Kingdom refers to the hypothetical world adoptees enter when imagining their birth relatives. Different Strokes: Info found at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077003/ Please remember to SHARE, comment, like and give 5 stars. 5 star ratings are essential to raise the profile of the podcast, get it heard and recognised.

While working with students, one educator came to a realization that put her on a path to fascinating research in the Science of Reading. In this episode, Jasmine Rogers—manager and coach with the In Schools program at the DC Reading Clinic and an early literacy intervention lead at American University—shares her story and delves into her research on dialects and best practices for structured literacy instruction. She discusses Black language and how it connects with the language comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope. Jasmine also offers recommendations for classroom teachers who have bidialectal students.Show notes:DC Reading ClinicS1-22: Success using the Science of Reading: Mary ClaymanJasmine Rogers - Linkedin S4-07: Linguistic Variety and Dialects: Difference, not error: Julie Washington“Teaching Reading to African American Children,” by Julie A. Washington and Mark S. Seidenberg“Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy,” by April Baker-Bell“An Informed Lens on African American English,” by Megan-Brette Hamilton“Multilingualism and Codeswitching in Education,” by Nkonko M. KamwangamaluQuotes:“As a teacher, a Black woman, who speaks Black English, who knows the language, who is very well versed in structured literacy, if I overlooked this, if that caught me off guard a little bit, then that means that could potentially catch someone else off guard.” —Jasmine Rogers“With language comprehension, and considering in your native language, there may be a word that doesn't necessarily match up with a language that you are learning in the classroom. So you have to then use your incredible cognitive skills that speak two completely different codes, comprehend what is happening, and then tie that back into, of course, the Rope to become a fluent reader.” —Jasmine Rogers“I consider Black English to be a very complex and complicated language…but I think typically in society it has been viewed very negatively. You can see in the media and in research where people have talked about it and used negative connotations. And I think those beliefs from society have seeped into the classroom.” —Jasmine Rogers“A strength of children that are bidialectal is the similar strength to students that are bilingual—they have an ability to take language that is different from theirs and translate it. That right there is an asset.” —Jasmine Rogers“The languages that we speak and bring from home also are not wrong. They're simply different. And we're gonna work together so that we take what we know differently and come together with a common language so that we're communicating with one another.” —Jasmine Rogers“We have got to give our students access to this code so that they can become literate and run our society one day.” —Jasmine Rogers

Linguists have begun compiling the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. We speak with a linguist from Washington University in St. Louis about the effort, why it's important, what makes Black English unique and inventive, and what misconceptions people might have about it.

If you want to know where African American English is headed, listen to Shondel Nero. Shondel was born in the Caribbean nation of Guyana where she code-switched between Guyana Creolese and colonial British English. As a young adult she moved to North America, eventually settling in New York City where she became a professor of language education at NYU. Shondel tells guest host Ciku Theuri that the various versions of English spoken by Black immigrants are rubbing off on Black American speech. Aided by the likes of TikTok, African American English is now going through a period of rapid change. Music in this episode by HATAMITSUNAMI, Matt Large, Rocket Jr., and Osoku. More about Shondel Nero here. The photo of Shondel was taken at Kaieteur Falls, the world's largest single drop waterfall located deep in the rainforest of her native Guyana. Read a transcript of the episode here. And sign up for Subtitle's newsletter here.

If you want to know where African American English is headed, listen to Shondel Nero. Shondel was born in the Caribbean nation of Guyana where she code-switched between Guyana Creolese and colonial British English. As a young adult she moved to North America, eventually settling in New York City where she became a professor of language education at NYU. Shondel tells guest host Ciku Theuri that the various versions of English spoken by Black immigrants are rubbing off on Black American speech. Aided by the likes of TikTok, African American English is now going through a period of rapid change. Music in this episode by HATAMITSUNAMI, Matt Large, Rocket Jr., and Osoku. More about Shondel Nero here. The photo of Shondel was taken at Kaieteur Falls, the world's largest single drop waterfall located deep in the rainforest of her native Guyana. Read a transcript of the episode here. And sign up for Subtitle's newsletter here.

John Hamilton McWhorter V is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. McWhorter is also a major pundit on social issues, and currently a columnist for the New York Times. Our conversation is as much about the use of the language we use to exchange ideas, as about the ideas themselves. McWhorter is the author of more than twenty books including Woke Racism, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. In 2016 he published Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). He has written for many publications including The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker and CNN. You can find John McWhorter on Twitter: @JohnHMcWhorter

Hoje vamos falar sobre um tema riquíssimo e pouco conhecido. O African American Vernacular English (AAVE), também conhecido como “Black English”. Instagram do Rodrigo: https://www.instagram.com/teacher.rodrigohonorato/

Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

Linguists have been studying Black English as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound “black.” In his first book devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black English, linguist John McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals and rich history while carefully examining the cultural, educational, and political issues that have undermined recognition of this transformative, empowering dialect. Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/TalkingBlack to watch the video.

In this episode of The Life Teacher Podcast, Hector welcomes Dr. Garrard McClendon. In 2004, Dr. McClendon wrote a book titled, "Ax Or Ask? The African American Guide to Better English" The book explores how Blacks can improve their speaking and writing skills, avoiding educational and occupational exclusion and exploitation. According the book's synopsis, it "increases awareness, improves student achievement, and provides advocacy for those wanting to speak mainstream English. A job opportunity can be won or lost by the words one chooses." Hector Suco and Dr. McClendon have a unique conversation about what language is, what seems appropriate, why people judge each other, and most importantly, how we can be better.

We are in Black History Month in the UK and who better to have on than Nora and Ola of the TheBlackCardTalks. Is the significance of black history month felt in this country though? In the US it is a massive thing but is that more so because they hold a larger percentage of the population that their history cannot be diluted? Regard the black voice has become stronger since last years traumatic events but it doesn't stop there. The younger generation need to be shaped in a way that they improve on what has been started already and it seems to be happening already in Gen Z. Maybe we will get to a point where code switching is not even a thing but that might just be a pipe dream, time will tell. We have all had different upbringings and who we were around during schooling years play a big part in that. Some found themselves more adaptable, whilst others felt marginalized, but all journeys are unique even for those with shared heritage. The reality is that many lower classed communities are forced to move out of the areas they live in due to gentrification and now have to look to more obscure locations where the diversity is not comparable to London. This has its pros and its cons but if people knew ahead of time what would happen, perhaps their moves would have been different. If people could go back and advise their younger selves, how would they do it. Black women face an uphill struggle in all facets of life but what is more important being black or being a woman? A strange question it may be but one that creates deep discussion and intriguing perspectives, find out about all this and more in this Impactful edition of TheNineToFivers Podcast

We couldn't be more thrilled to kick off SEASON THREE of the Record Store Day Podcast with the incredible Yola talking about her recent album, Stand For Myself, and what it means to be a Black English woman walking through the fire in Nashville. Plus, Matt Jencik calls in from Chicago to tell us about Reckless Records, and RSD's Carrie Colliton checks in from Las Vegas to talk about Lady Gaga and the fierce urgency of now. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Tito's Handmade Vodka. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for up-to-the-minute news and information from the RSD community. Please rate us, review us, and subscribe to us wherever you get podcasts. Thank you for two incredible seasons, here comes the third.

Today we have another amazing episode of the Black on Black Education Podcast! We sat down to have a conversation with Reina Esteem, a 7th grade ELA teacher and English education advocate. We spoke about so much from code switching, to creating a support system for students, and language biases. This conversation was so enriching and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blackonblackeducation/support

[This article contains spoilers.] In the penultimate episode of The Chair, one of the most watched shows on Netflix last month, Dr. Yaz McKay (Nana Mensah), a Black English professor at the fictional Pembroke University, tells her colleague and departmental chair Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh), “you act like you owe them something. Like you're here because they let you be here, not because you deserve it [...] You should be running this place. Instead, you are running around playing nice.” Author: Sohel Sarkar Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Culture-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/culture --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thespillmag/message

Too fly. Fire. Dope. So much of American expression comes straight from Black English, a.k.a. African American Vernacular English. But you won't find this colorful and dynamic language taught in schools. Ohio State education researchers say Black students need their language heritage to finally be validated.    View transcript   X - 2018 Kendrick Lamar (featuring ScHoolboy Q, 2 Chainz & Saudi); TikTok audio - cstreetblvd; Wade in the Water - 2002, Blind Boys of Alabama; Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) at Grand Rapids Community College; We Must Learn - 1989 KRS-One/Boogie Down Productions 'Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop'; Thieves in the Night - 1998, Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Black Star

As linguist Dr. John McWhorter once said, one of the last remaining prejudices that we can openly express is linguistic prejudice. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses the intricacies of Black Language, the myths surrounding the criticisms of Black Language or Black English or Ebonics, and the need to combat what Dr. April Baker-Bell calls “anti-black linguistic racism.”

As linguist Dr. John McWhorter once said, one of the last remaining prejudices that we can openly express is linguistic prejudice. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses the intricacies of Black Language, the myths surrounding the criticisms of Black Language or Black English or Ebonics, and the need to combat what Dr. April Baker-Bell calls “anti-black linguistic racism.”

What does it mean to be woke? Has the word problematic become problematic? Lexicon Valley’s John McWhorter talks to Amna Khalid about the fraught vocabulary of modern censorship. * FULL TRANSCRIPT *AMNA KHALID: From Booksmart Studios, this is Banished. And I’m Amna Khalid.NEWSCASTER: Republicans are always denouncing so-called “cancel culture.”BBC GUEST 1: I think that nobody should lose their job because of what they believe in. I think that’s the issue—BBC GUEST 2: —but that’s what “cancel culture” is!POLITICIAN: “Cancel culture” is eroding the very foundation of who we are as an American people.NEWSCASTER 1: He’s woke.NEWSCASTER 2: I’m woke.NEWSCASTER 3: Now you’re woke but you’re like me woke!NEWSCASTER 2: I’m woke to the woke.FOX NEWS GUEST: So we’re woke, and we have to say woke.NEWSCASTER: Wait, so we’re both woke? You and I are both woke?FOX NEWS GUEST: Yeah, I think we’re woke!NEWSCASTER: Who’s the woker of the two, would you say?AK: “Woke” and “cancel culture” are now two terms that are now so much a part of our consciousness, that it feels like they’ve been around forever. But the reality is that they exploded only a few years ago. Like many of our most fraught cultural terms, they evolved over time, jumping from one community to another, shifting slightly in meaning or nuance. Along the way, they get weaponized, fall in and out of favor and even get canceled themselves — in other words, they are linguistically fascinating.Who better to dig into the lexicon of Banished, than John McWhorter, the host of Lexicon Valley here on Booksmart Studios, and an esteemed professor of linguistics at Columbia University. If you’ve never heard his show, it’s an endlessly entertaining deep-dive into everything that makes language so enthralling. I started our conversation by asking him about the word woke, which I first heard in hip-hop lyrics. JOHN McWHORTER: Well, woke actually goes back further than many people would think. It's actually first documented in the early 60s and it was a Black slang. What it meant was politically aware of certain realities that operate largely below the surface, but have a determinative effect on, for example, the Black American condition. And so you might think, if you were you or me, that woke is about 10 years old. But actually people were saying it on the Black street long before that. It did not leave the Black street. Then, in roughly the 2000-teens, it jumped the rails and started being used by a certain kind of politically aware white person on the left. And what it meant at first in the general culture was somebody who understands certain basic leftist analysises of the world. What it really was, was a substitute for a term that had worn out. It replaced politically correct, which, if you're just old enough now, you can remember was used without irony back in the late 70s and early 80s. And what it meant was that you have a basic understanding of liberal/leftist realities. Then it became PC. PCstarted being used as a slur to ridicule the kind of person who used that kind of ideology as a bludgeon in a smug kind of way. And so you couldn't say politically correct without making somebody laugh by, say, 2010. Really, you couldn't do it by about 1990. And so woke replaced that. As recently as 2018, I was on a TV show—STEPHEN COLBERT (crowd cheering): My next guest tonight is a professor at Columbia University, who hosts one of my favorite podcasts.JM: —talking about how woke was taking on a certain pejorative flavor.JM ON COLBERT: When I learned it, it was still just the coolest thing: You are woke to the complexities of society and how injustice really happens. It was cool — it smelled like, roughly, marijuana and lavender. It was that kind of word. And about two seconds later, a certain kind of person started sneering: Oh, is that person woke?People from a certain side of the political spectrum are throwing at other people the idea being that you’re a smug person who thinks that your views are the ones that come from on high. That has happened during the time, roughly, that a certain person has become president, and about six months before that. I’ve found it fascinating. Woke will be all but unusable in ten years.JM: Now, I would say that it has it. It's 2021, woke is now a word that is very much in quotation marks. Nobody would use woke in common parlance to mean that you understand the politics of Ta-Nahisi Coates. Now woke is used to make fun of people of a certain kind of leftist political persuasion who are beyond reasonable address. And so what's happened is that it has become a pejorative word, which happens to words all over the language, all over languages all the time. And so random example, reduce. Reduce used to mean to lead back to, and it could lead back to something good, something bad, something large, something small. You could reduce something to its former glory 500 years ago. That meant just take it back. Now, you could also reduce something to its former misery. It's the misery meaning that ended up taking over, that pejorative meaning. That happens a lot in language, more than what's called amelioration for reasons that we need not get into. But words tend to putrefy, essentially, and that is what happened with woke very quickly in this decade and the last one, partly because the internet makes these things come around and go around faster.AK: If I'm hearing this right, you're saying woke was part of the Black vernacular and it had a particular political valence which has been taken over and turned around, and now it's become a derogatory term almost to call someone woke.JM: Exactly.AK: Nobody would say I am woke as a matter of pride. Do you see a movement to reclaim it as a positive?JM: I can imagine doing kind of linguistic science fiction and writing about the reclaiming of the word, because that does happen with slurs. There's an example that I could give that I don't even need to. We all know. So pretend I talked about that for five minutes — but the term woke, I don't see that happening. For example, you didn't see people saying, yes, I'm a PC and I'm proud of it. People ran away from it and created something new. In 2021, it's too early to say what the new term is going to be, but I can guarantee you that by 2030 there'll be something else which starts meaning something very specific. It may emerge from Black culture and it will be generalized to mean that you've got the proper The Nation politics. I don't think it's going to happen with woke, partly because it's so imprinted now as a way of making fun of somebody. It's just at the point where if somebody said Yes, I am woke, it sounds trivial, it sounds like you don't have your own ideas and you're just looking for something to put on a T-shirt. So I think what we need to do is start listening for what the new term is going to be. These things emerge spontaneously. Nobody's going to create it on Madison Avenue, but it will certainly happen.AK: Is there a particular moment you can point to when you think woke started taking on a pejorative valence? Was it a very purposeful appropriation by the right to discredit a particular kind of social justice awareness or social consciousness, or did it emerge out of an organic movement?JM: Of course, the right started making fun of wokeness, and to me that's 2017, 2018. Where woke became a joke, and that was an unintentional rhyme, was last summer when even people on the left started ridiculing a particular kind of person. Wokebecame a joke in roughly June 2020. It was in the wake of the protests about George Floyd, during the quarantine at its worst, when a lot of people had very little to do and were very angry about it. It tended to focus these sorts of things. So yeah, I think we've seen that transition just over about the past year and change that woke is now unusable outside of quotation marks, just like a word like perky. You can't really say perky, you can only say perky in quotes.AK: There are words that are used by the Black community, if I can use that for a moment and make it a monolith, to communicate in ways that remains separate from and distinct from the use of language by white people. Of course, there's a history to this. There's the history of enslaved people using particular language to communicate, words to communicate, so that their masters, quote unquote, could not understand what was being said. To what extent do you think the fact that woke will not be reclaimed is actually a continuation of that trend where words that come from the Black vernacular, become mainstream, like cool, then subsequently get dropped by the Black community that almost prides itself on coming up with a new term that is exclusive.JM: We're not always aware of how subconscious the use of language generally is, especially when you're talking about at the level of a community. It's one thing to say that Black English represents the creativity of Black people and that when a term gets worn out, Black people make up a new term. That doesn't actually refer to a process that's been observed among human beings. The truth is that these terms tend to emerge spontaneously based on probabilistic processes. It isn't that, say, the teens are making up new slang to confuse their parents. I'm going to give you a term: diglossia. Most people in the world have two levels that they speak on, the high and the low. In America, it can be hard to quite imagine that unless you think about Black people. We’re a very boring country linguistically in many ways. But Black people have the high, the standard, the low, quote unquote, although there's nothing low about it, which is Black English. If something jumps from the low to the high, it's not that Black people think, well, now we must create something new. It's that the word no longer feels L, low, and all language is eternally creative in its own right. You need terms for things. And so next thing you know, a new term will be spontaneously invented because the old one wore out or it stopped being part of the L. It stopped feeling like us. And it's usually below the radar. Nobody could know that these things were going to happen. And then you wake up and you have some white guy playing hacky sack and using the term woke, who knew? But that means that it's no longer the guy in Chicago living in a Black neighborhood who uses that. He's going to have some other word he's using after a while.AK: So talk to me about cancel. Where does the term cancel come from and how has the meaning of that changed over time?JM: Well, cancel culture is a really messy term because it starts with the idea that a celebrity who produces some sort of product, writings or performance, recorded performance, is in bad odor and therefore they're going to be canceled like a TV show. And so that person's work is no longer going to be seen. They're no longer going to get hired. I think that the paradigm example would be Bill Cosby. He was cancellable. You can't hire him. You're no longer going to show the sitcom. It's no longer going to stream. I was at a store around when he was cancelled where they were literally giving away DVDs of the TV show for free. And I thought, wow, yeah, he's been canceled. And so that takes care of that. But terms are always generalizing in some way. They're ameliorating. They are pejorating. Something's going to happen to almost any term that's worth its salt. So now cancel culture is not so much about eliminating somebody from the public presence as just deciding that they are no longer fit for polite society, that we don't like them anymore. And so it's not that these people are going to go away. Our technology makes it so that it's pretty hard to cancel anybody completely anyway, but it just means that that person is a persona non grata, they are ostracized. So I think these days we're at this intermediate stage where somebody is determined as non grata, and spontaneously people say we're not trying to cancel you. And the question is, if they're not trying to cancel you, what are they doing? Because the cancelling no longer means that you don't exist. I'm not going to get specific, but about a year ago, it happened to me. I was canceled by a certain august body for, you know, reasons that people can guess. And I was told by the very nice person, we're not cancelling you. Well, of course not. You know, I've got all these writings out there, and it's not like I'm not going to be able to go to conferences and things like that. What I was subjected to was being told that I am unsavory in a very public way. That's the cancellation. So it no longer means what it means. But that's true of so much of language. Nobody’s being cancelled, but it just means that you are having a scarlet letter put upon you.AK: How is it different from censorship or censoring someone?JM: It's not. It's the same thing. Cancel culture is just a more vivid term. Censorship, you think more of the printed page. It doesn't sound as societal. So we say cancel culture because that sounds one, newer; two, meaner; three, less specific than censorship. I would call them different terms for the exact same thing.AK: So I’d push back over here a little bit and to my ear and from the way it's being used, I think about censorship as something that is associated — and I'm getting into the politics of these words now — it's associated with something that the right does.JM: Mm-hmm.AK: Whereas cancel culture is seen as something that is a product of this wokeperformative way of saying I adhere to certain social justice values. Am I correct in kind of thinking about it in this way? People ask me what Banished is about. They immediately assume it's about cancel culture and it is. But to my mind, I always jump in, then say and censorship, because it's not just about the kinds of eliminations that are coming from this left side of the spectrum. I'm interested in things that are being cut out left, right and center.JM: You're quite right. I hadn't thought about that. The person on the left who's accused of censorship is insulted. They feel like they're being accused of something that they're used to hurling at the other side. They often don't realize they're doing the same thing or they think that it's OK if the left does it because the left is right, correct basically. Yes, cancel culture is censorship from the left. Talk about subconscious. I never thought about this, and yet I've been using it in that way for a year.AK: Another term that I grew up in graduate school using quite regularly and without thinking of it as a “problem” is the term problematic. In fact, one of the ways in which you recognized someone was a graduate student over lunch was when they said I'd like to problematize that. So this is another term that has kind of migrated from a different area or different field into mainstream conversation and has come to mean something again politically. When did you first encounter the word, let's start there? And then when did you start noticing that it's beginning to take on a different meaning?JM: Problematic to me is exactly what you said. It's a graduate student in 1993 drinking their latte and talking about something that probably wouldn't interest most people who are not academics. It's the aughts where problematic becomes something someone's doing that the educated person is supposed to morally disapprove of. It seems to me that there's a certain euphemism in the word problematic, because what it usually is is a prelude to something being racist or sexist or fat shaming or something like that. But you start out calling it problematic with the implication that it's difficult, it's tricky, that you have to break something down — avoiding coming right out and being what used to be called a knee jerk liberal. Instead of just yelling it's racist, it’s sexist, I don't like it, you say, well, actually, it's kind of problematic because. I don't know who that person is, but I do, actually. And then, you know, the racism and the sexism is coming. Problematic now means blasphemous. Problematic means that you have sinned, that you're a heretic, that you should not have any Chardonnay and brie. But nobody wants to come right out and say that. We're too sophisticated to call people heretics. And so now often the way you call somebody a heretic is to say isn't he problematic? — that means that he's a witch.AK: OK, so now we're getting into really interesting territory where I'm beginning to think of the word blasphemy. I come from a country where blasphemy means what it literally means and has always meant and has consequences. Over here, blasphemy has taken on a different meaning. It's a way of ostracizing someone from any community and what the rules are specific to that community. What does that word mean today?JM: Well, to the extent that you have a certain kind of hyper woke person who has a religion, it's no longer an Abrahamic religion. It's not Christianity, it's not Judaism, it's not Islam. It's Electism. They have a sense that certain people are not to be tolerated for the same reason that a Christian or someone else would ban the heretic. That is what they call problematic, but really it's blasphemy. Today's blasphemy is not about God. Nobody thinks of it is taking the Lord's name in vain to say, oh, my God, anymore. That was old school blasphemy. But now I find the Middle Ages much easier to understand than I used to just, you know, going online and watching what happens to nice people all the time. That is today's blasphemy. I would almost teach a child blasphemy based on the sort of things that happened to Donald McNeil, Alison Roman, etc., as opposed to Galileo.AK: You've coined the term “the Elect” and we just referred to it. Who are you referring to as the Elect and how exactly are you, are you using that phrase?JM: The Elect is a term that I used to refer to a certain kind of person who has hard leftist views about the way things are supposed to go and feels that being mean to people is justifiable in the name of making the world safe for those views. And so it's not the woke, it's not the hyper woke, it's woke people who are mean, who are The Elect. It's the evangelical, prosecutorial woke. And so by The Elect, I mean the kinds of people who seek to get people fired, who support policies for Black people that hurt Black people but qualify as goodly because they are quote unquote anti-racist. For example, it is Elect to say if Black kids aren't good at standardized tests, then let's eliminate the test because it's racist rather than helping Black kids get better at tests, and that particular kind of thinking. The term is not original to me, but I find it very useful and I hope it settles in. The Elect.AK: I come from a society where freedom of expression is, doesn't exist. There are very strict parameters to what you can and cannot say.JM: You mean academia?AK (laughs): That is the society I inhabit now. That was good. I mean Pakistan. In fact, that's part of my disillusionment with academia. I didn't expect it, especially not in the West and not in the US where freedom of expression is supposedly enshrined in the Constitution. Censorship from the right is something that I'm familiar with. I can even understand those tendencies within the U.S. coming from a more authoritarian mindset, from the political right. To some degree I can get that. What I find troubling, deeply troubling, is that I'm finding that kind of censorship coming from the left. So, talk about cancel culture. And I've been playing around a lot with the notion of why this is the case. And I'm going to present to you a hypothesis and ask you to tell me what you think. After much contemplation, I thought, well, maybe it's a society that has had a lot of freedom, precisely because freedom of expression is enshrined as a constitutional right. When there is so much freedom, it must necessarily produce its own unfreedom to rail against. A concept cannot exist, similarly a practice cannot exist, if it doesn't have its antithesis or antichrist. I'm beginning to wrap my head around what I'm seeing happening, particularly in academia, as this is just freedom coming full circle.JM: Hm. I like that. I am inclined to think that there's something else involved and it's social media. I think if — it's impossible to imagine a world without it now — but if we really did go back to that time when there was just email and the whole world could not talk to itself, I think we wouldn't have this happening on the left because what it is, is a reign of terror. A lot of what goes on on the left in terms of these cancellations is based not on consensus, but on fear. People are really afraid of being called a dirty name. And so you don't speak against the minority of people who are coming over the hill with pitchforks. I think that has a lot to do with it. And what people are so afraid of really is being called a dirty thing on Twitter. It is mostly Twitter. It is mostly being called a racist. Nobody wants to be called a racist on Twitter, or Facebook or Instagram, but mostly Twitter. Fifteen years ago, if somebody didn't like something that I wrote or something that I said, they would write a letter and they would send it to my mailbox, or they would write an email to me. That's what people did, and you got used to it. Now that almost never happens. Almost nobody emails me and it's very easy to find my Columbia email. It barely ever happens because those same people, they feel the same way, they put it on Twitter where everybody can see it. That change happened in about 2012 and there's no going back from that. You can see that the impulse of a certain kind of person used to be: I wish I could tell the world that I hate this person, but instead I'm just going to send it to their email because that's the best I can do. That person now can write it in the sky and we're never going to be rid of that kind of person. So, yeah, you have a new era that started in the early 2000-teens.AK: OK, I'm going to turn the camera upon us as academics for a moment and say one of the problems that I have right now is the erosion of academic freedom on college campuses. And I think the people who are responsible for it at the end of the day are us. It's tenured professors. And I know you don't have tenure, but you're a person with enough authority.JM: Close enough.AK: Close enough, so forgive me for lumping you with us, but it's tenured professors who are not speaking up, both in terms of the excesses of the administration, which is increasingly bureaucratized and corporatized, and also in terms of the kind of wider trends of the adjunctification of the faculty itself, which is a deep threat to academic freedom. So I hold tenured academics responsible for that. And it's easy to bash social media for giving fillip to nasty trends. There are nasty people out there. There is a nastiness in all of us and perhaps we feel more comfortable airing it when we're not talking to someone face to face and we can put it out.JM: Exactly.AK: But there is also a niceness to all of us, or at least I desperately want to believe that, right? I really do, because if we don't, I feel like I begin to lose the will to live. What's the point, right? So why do we not use social media in a way that fights against the kind of natural tendencies that it brings out? To what degree can we repurpose that and fight cancel culture and fight this tendency to shut people up by actually reclaiming that space? Maybe we can't, but I'm interested in hearing what your thoughts are.JM: We have a moral duty as thinking people in this culture now. Fifty years ago, that duty was to understand that racism is not just calling dirty names, that sexism is not just calling dirty names, that you have to look inside of yourself. And I think practically everybody in this country learned how to do that through the 1970s to a degree that was stunning. And many people today would say that it wasn't important, but I think they either lack historical imagination or they're just not old enough to remember what things were like before. If you walked around in 1950 and talked to educated Americans about how they felt about women and how they felt about Black people, I think many people would be utterly stunned at the difference. Something happened between 1970 and 1980. Now, we have a similar thing that we need to do, which is to learn to not be so damned afraid of being called names on social media. A lot of people are clearly frightened to their socks of somebody saying something nasty to them and then being retweeted. And the truth is, it happens, it flares for a while and it goes away. And Twitter is not the world. Now, of course, some people feel that they don't want to risk their jobs, but I think for most people, it's just that they don't want to be called a dirty name and a dirty name today is you racist. And so they just hold back. And that means that the nasty guys in the schoolyard end up taking over. Even if you try to be nice on Twitter, there are some people — and they're not crazy, they're not trolls, they're not under a bridge; unfortunately, they're ordinary people who are probably very nice in real life — but people will be mean to you for being nice. You know, how dare you praise this? How dare you excuse that? That kind of person cannot be allowed to determine what Twitter is like, though. You just have to let them, you have to let them yell. And I really hope that part of the pendulum shift is that a critical mass of people will learn that you can be called a dirty name on social media, and you know the planet will keep spinning, your friends will keep liking you. It's hard to be yelled at. You get used to it. But I think we need to start learning how to get used to it more.AK: Where do you think the fear comes from? I understand the fear when it's coming from a threat to your livelihood.JM: Mm-hmm.AK: What is it? I'm trying to dig to the deep roots of what are we so bloody afraid of? I've been called many things in my life, sometimes been proud of the fact that I’ve been called many things in my life, which are not necessarily nice things. Being a — aterm that I absolutely detest, but I'll use at the moment — you know, a person of color, I say things that people don't expect a person of color to say. And so then I get labeled as someone who has false onsciousness or someone who's drunk the Kool-Aid and all kinds of things. What is it what is it that we're so scared of?JM: In a different world, you didn't want it to be said that you were godless. In this world, you don't want it to be said that you are a racist or that you are a sexist because that questions your very legitimacy as a human being. And I think you or me as people of color, we can say things about race and get called certain things. But there isn't as much of a sting, especially because, frankly, the charges are often so absurd. You know, like somebody telling me that I don't like myself. Frankly, yes, I do and everybody knows. You can tell. And I'm sure that you feel the same way. Whatever you're being called, it has nothing to do with you. But I will openly admit, I could not bear — and watch it happen now that I say this — I could not bear it getting around that I was a sexist. That's too much. If it got around that I had some sort of woman problem, that I didn't think women were men's equals, it would make me want to curl up in a corner and die. That would be more than I could risk, and I'm quite sure that I don't have that issue. But if somebody decided to start a campaign on Twitter and call me all sorts of things and distort things that I wrote, I would not be up for that. And so I can put myself in other people's place. They feel that way about race. They feel I just couldn't tolerate that. But, you know, if there were an epidemic of people being called sexist for no good reason, I would have to buck up, you know, if I had some skin in that game. And I think that's what has to happen with the racist charge within reason. You don't want to take advantage, but you can't let the people who spend their lives saying mean things on Twitter determine that entire forum because it could be used for such good. You're right. But everybody needs to get some, you see I want to say balls, but that's no good.THEME MUSIC UPAK: Well, I think this entire segment has to be edited out because otherwise you're going to be branded as sexist and we are going to have a campaign. And then you use the term balls, so you just gave …JM: Yeah, I’m, I’m gone.AK: You’re gone. (laughing)JM: Yeah.AK: Thank you John McWhorter for being with us today. This was a delightful conversation. It's always a pleasure to talk to you.JM: Thank you for having me Amna.AK: If you liked what you heard today, and want more exclusive content, please consider becoming a paying subscriber to Booksmart Studios. Subscribers get access to transcripts, extended interviews, and bonus segments.Before I sign off, I must remind you — I must implore you — to comment, rate, share what you've heard here today. And not just Banished, but the other Booksmart Studios shows like John McWhorter's Lexicon Valley and Bob Garfield’s Bully Pulpit. Both programs are stimulating and incisive in their analysis.So please share! The success of Booksmart, the impact of our work, depends as much on you as on us. Banished is produced by Matthew Schwartz and Mike Vuolo. I am Amna Khalid. So long. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit banished.substack.com/subscribe

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Black excellence in Football. Sunday hurt... The England men's football team missed out on becoming European Champions after losing to Italy. Despite the team's historic performance Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka got loads of racist abuse online for missing their penalties. Now, it kinda feels like the country is standing up to racism. This week De-Graft visits the Marcus Rashford mural in Manchester, which was defaced after the Euro final. We celebrate the success of the Black English players with Black sports journalist, Leon Mann, and we speak to grime artist, Saskilla, about what the FA is doing to tackle racism in football. Clips credit goes to Century Films who helped produce Saskilla's doc for BBC3: "Do Black Lives Still Matter?" Host: De-Graft Mensah Producers: Jack Suddaby and Seren Jones Sound Designer: Jack Suddaby Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos Tracklisting: 00:04 De-Graft visits the Marcus Rashford mural 00:56 De-Graft is back with this week's EP! 01:35 De-Graft's Euro's journey 03:44 In conversation with Leon Mann 04:22 England making history 08:12 Black Excellence in the England squad 09:30 In conversation with Saskilla 12:36 Government response to racist abuse directed at England players 13:01 Social media companies' response to racist abuse directed at England players 13:50 The lack of Black managers in football 15:45 The lack of Black football captains 17:16 How do we solve online racism? 20:55 De-Graft's reflections 21:16 Thanks for listening, we promise De-Graft and Roshan will be back for the next episode!

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In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight  Jamaican American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist, June Jordan. In her writing, she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation.Jordan was passionate about using Black English in her writing and poetry, teaching others to treat it as its own language and an important outlet for expressing Black culture.Jordan was inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in 2019.“A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades”First they said I was too lightThen they said I was too darkThen they said I was too differentThen they said I was too much the sameThen they said I was too youngThen they said I was too oldThen they said I was too interracialThen they said I was too much a nationalistThen they said I was too sillyThen they said I was too angryThen they said I was too idealisticThen they said I was too confusing altogether:Make up your mind! They said. Are you militantor sweet? Are you vegetarian or meat? Are you straightor are you gay? And I said, Hey! It's not about my mindSupport the show (https://getlit.org/donate/)

After England's loss to Italy yesterday, three Black English footballers have been on the recieving end of racist abuse - sparking widespread condemnation from both within the sport and the wider community. But for many in the United Kingdom, hearing that some footballers were victims of such abuse hasn't come as much of a surprise. British anti-racism campaigner and chief executive of race on the Agenda Maurice Mcleod spoke to Corin Dann.

George and Alison are joined by Lewis Wright, lead singer of Attic Theory (a band named from Elementary episode two!) to discuss Elementary's ninth episode. Episode logline: An under-the-weather Sherlock investigates the murder of a college professor whose body was found with gunshot wounds through both of his eyes. Using his trademark deductive reasoning, Sherlock retraces the victim's path back to an illicit gambling parlor in Chinatown where he was shot. Gregson is able to bring in the gunman thanks to video surveillance footage, but when the killer claims that he was hired to take out the professor, Sherlock realises that his work has only just begun. Meanwhile, Watson gets a call from an addict and former lover who is in prison and needs her help. (From Baker Street Wiki) Social Media: Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Attic Theory on Twitter and Instagram Show Notes: Planet Rock UK Poirot, Quincy, and of course, Colombo Sherlock Holmes 22nd Century is bananas. Why do British singers sound American? Radiohead's "You Do it to Yourself" Sex Bob-bomb's "Threshold" More than you ever wanted to know about a pig's orgasm. Cameron Scoggins Pai Gow Randall Duk Kim Get you very own vocal steamer Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian Kafkaesque via New York Times Machine The Horatio Alger nerd burn Kristy Wu Batman Forever soundtrack Batman and Robin soundtrack Bat Minute podcast Atlantic article about abolishing ICE Vox explains abolishing ICE The Long Haul by Black English

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm back! In today's episode we talk about everything and nothing. - Sharip Podcast Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPoQ6oEX77vvgKzPeBs1EQ - YouTube Subscribe: www.youtube.com/NurzhanSansyzbaev - Audio Subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1483660865 Follow Sharip Podcast on Instagram: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharippodcast OUTLINE: Here's the tomestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Announcement in Russian (01:47) - Getting into it (03:53) - Tough year (05:03) - Back In Black (08:07) - Reminiscing (12:00) - Why I'm doing podcast (15:06) - Family Issues (21:55) - Astana (25:26) - Hip-Hop (31:10) - My Top 4 Rappers (32:20) - Future plans (34:04) - Joey Diaz (36:20) - Shout-out (37:16) - Support (39:01) - Summer is coming!

If it wasn't called 'cheating' would it be as bad? The two D's discuss an alternative answer to the age old question 'why men cheat' as well as discussing whether you can be black and English. This plus much more! Listen, Like, subscribe and please send to one person!

"There are all sorts of things in linguistics that would be fascinating to discover: how language started, what the beginnings were, why language evolved. There are some languages that are easier to learn because grownups had to learn them a lot. English is one of those, partially because of what Vikings did to it starting in the year 787." Linguist and social commentator John McWhorter is on the show, discussing his early passion for language, current trends in linguistics, musicology, and academia, and his deep love of Broadway and 'The Great American Songbook.' He and Daniel delve into many of the fundamental questions people have about language-- how did it all start? How many languages are there in the world? Why are some so difficult? McWhorter also spends some time analyzing the extreme polarization in which our country finds itself right now-- the far left and the far right pulling increasingly apart-- and he offers a potential remedy, while acknowledging it probably isn't very likely to happen any time soon. Never afraid to speak his mind, even when it goes against the grain, he is a source of great knowledge about our American cultural fabric. In the closing segment, he gives us great recommendations for some songs and musicals to listen to right now. A few may surprise you. John H McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He earned his B.A. from Rutgers, his M.A. from New York University, and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford. Professor McWhorter has taught the American Studies seminar "Language in America," a study of American linguistic history that considered Native American languages, immigrant languages, creole languages, and Black English -- their development, interactions, and preservation. He has also taught the seminar "Language Contact," which focused specifically on the mixture of language in North America, and studied the development of creoles, pidgins, koines, "vehicular" languages, and nonstandard dialects. The seminar considered perceived legitimacy of languages, and the standing of language mixtures in media and education. Professor McWhorter is an author of more than a dozen books including The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. In 2016 he published Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). He also regularly contributes to newspapers and magazines including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Some might be particularly interested in his article on how immigrants change languages in The Atlantic and an essay on policing the "N-word" in Time.

Olivia and Raven get into what it means to talk “white,” use Black English, and acting and thinking “white.” Discussion Summary: 00:32: Both Raven and Olivia have been accused of talking and acting “white,” and the insult of being told “you speak so well” by white people. 01:38: What's talking “white,” Black English, and code-switching for journalism and voiceover work. 03:50: Proper and improper English, assumptions about how a person speaks associated with skin color, and being judged based on the way you speak by white and black people. 13:33: Why talking and acting “white” is viewed negatively by black people. 16:15: Judging people negatively based on their accent or dialect, mocking accents, and using accents to illustrate negative characteristics. 23:01: What is acting “white?” Why do black people accuse other black people of it? 25:50: the focus on being familial in the black community, the struggles of being a black introvert, and the joys of being introverted. 30:14: What is thinking “white,” what Raven finds problematic about labeling a certain way of thinking as “white,” and dealing with criticisms of the choice not to have a family. 37:45: There's no one way to be black, and people assuming you have certain preferences and taste in music because you're black. 44:05: Black Beauty Highlight. GLADYS BENTLEY The Great Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke All the Rules 45:52: Outro.   Social media: Twitter @I_squaredpod, our Facebook page, and our public Facebook group, Intersectional Insights. Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie Black Beauty Highlight Background: "Hard Boiled" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Closing: First Class - DJ Williams

Designer Elizabeth Lamont is a warm-hearted energetic "highly functioning creative," passionate about design, nature and travel. Famous for her coastal living style, Elizabeth has made a name for herself designing multi-million dollar homes in Malibu for clients like Maria Shriver and Whoopie Goldberg. Elizabeth started her world-renowned store Room at the Beach over 20 years ago on Montana Avenue in Brentwood, California. It was a huge success and she now has stores in Malibu and the Pacific Palisades (elizabethlamont.com) Elizabeth explains, “I'm a forward thinker. I constantly read books and magazines, and pore over Instagram. I try to think about what’s the next trend and how are people living their lives. I want to know what you want." Elizabeth shares her cutting-edge design philosophy and her simple “house refresh hacks” to transform our homes for spring. She supports and champions women-owned businesses at her world famous store Room at the Beach with celebrity book signings and design, cooking and floral arranging classes. Elizabeth shares her story of faith and resilience during her divorce, raising two young children and the death of her parents when she had to start over. Elizabeth reveals, “I was really alone and I was very frightened. I was determined that I wasn’t going to go down, and with the strength of God and the support of my friends I built my business back up again. I was raised Catholic and I still say 'The Lord’s Prayer' and the 'Hail Mary' every day." Elizabeth's incredible “faith crew” includes close friend journalist and author Maria Shriver and actress, producer and author Roma Downey. Elizabeth gushes, “Maria is so inspirational on every level. Many of us have been knocked down by life and our faith and friendship helped us pick ourselves up and start over again. You have to make the time to be a girlfriend.” What is the secret to her power circle's success? Elizabeth reflects, "Their attention to detail and strong work ethic is awe-inspiring.” With the focus on home, Elizabeth’s days are full. Elizabeth laughs, “What’s in my cup today? Black English tea, honey and lots of faith."

This is an episode about the education system, and the many linguistic injustices that exist within it. We talk about how students are often at a disadvantage if they don't come into the classroom with a pre-existing fluency in the dominant language, and also how educators can face discrimination based on their accents, before diving into specific examples of times the school system has made an effort to create a better learning environment for students in multicultural contexts.REFERENCES AP Archive. (2015, July 21). USA: Washington: Senate debate over Black American dialect Ebonics [Video]. YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUT5E6JXwyc&t=41s Bon, S. C. (2020, January 14). Lau v. Nichols. In Encyclopaedia Britannica. www.britannica.com/topic/Lau-v-Nichols Bonilla-Silva, E. (2018). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America (5th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. Freeman, E. B. (1982). The Ann Arbor decision: The importance of teachers’ attitudes toward language. The Elementary School Journal 83(1), 41–47. Piller, I. (2017). Intercultural Communication: A Critical Approach (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press. Rickford, J. R. (2002). The Ebonics controversy in my backyard: A sociolinguist’s experiences and reflections. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3(2), 267–275. Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupil’s intellectual development. Crown House. Scollon, R., Scollon, S. W., & Jones, R. (2012). Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach (3rd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.Yellin, D. (1980). The Black English controversy: Implications from the Ann Arbor case. Journal of Reading 24(2), 150–154.

This is a segment of episode #286 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Afropessimism: Blackness, At The End Of This World w/ Frank B. Wilderson III.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWwilderson Purchase a copy of ‘Afropessimism’: http://bit.ly/2MziVUw Award-winning writer, poet, and scholar Frank B. Wilderson III joins me to discuss his book ‘Afropessimism,’ a "seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness" that, through a combination of profound personal reflection and meta-critical theory, peers deeply into the heart of the Black experience in the world today. “Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery—in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms—continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the United States but around the world? “Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Wilderson presents the tenets of an increasingly prominent intellectual movement (Afropessimism) that sees Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Drawing on works of philosophy, literature, film, and critical theory, he shows that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive anti-Black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but the very engine that powers our civilization, and that without this master-slave dynamic, the calculus bolstering world civilization would collapse.” Frank Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He also lectured at the University of Witwatersrand (a White English medium university in Johannesburg), Vista University (a Black English medium, Afrikaner-controlled university in Soweto), and Khanya College (a tertiary-level liberation school for activist youth whose studies had been “interrupted” by the revolution). Dr. Wilderson served as a Market Theater dramaturge and worked on an all-Black South African cast production of the Black American play The Colored Museum; and as an elected official in the (ANC-aligned) Congress of South African Writers. His books include ‘Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid’ (Duke University Press, [2008] 2015), ‘Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms’ (Duke University Press, 2010), and ‘Afropessimism’ (Liveright, 2020). WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr ATTACK & DETHRONE: https://anchor.fm/adgodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 8:08] Award-winning writer, poet, and scholar Frank B. Wilderson III joins me to discuss his book ‘Afropessimism,’ a "seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness" that, through a combination of profound personal reflection and meta-critical theory, peers deeply into the heart of the Black experience in the world today. “Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery—in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms—continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the United States but around the world? “Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Wilderson presents the tenets of an increasingly prominent intellectual movement (Afropessimism) that sees Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Drawing on works of philosophy, literature, film, and critical theory, he shows that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive anti-Black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but the very engine that powers our civilization, and that without this master-slave dynamic, the calculus bolstering world civilization would collapse.” Frank Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He also lectured at the University of Witwatersrand (a White English medium university in Johannesburg), Vista University (a Black English medium, Afrikaner-controlled university in Soweto), and Khanya College (a tertiary-level liberation school for activist youth whose studies had been “interrupted” by the revolution). Dr. Wilderson served as a Market Theater dramaturge and worked on an all-Black South African cast production of the Black American play The Colored Museum; and as an elected official in the (ANC-aligned) Congress of South African Writers. His books include ‘Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid’ (Duke University Press, [2008] 2015), ‘Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms’ (Duke University Press, 2010), and ‘Afropessimism’ (Liveright, 2020). Episode Notes: - Learn more about Frank’s work: https://www.frankbwildersoniii.com - Purchase a copy of ‘Afropessimism’: http://bit.ly/2MziVUw - Recommended reading: ‘The Argument of “Afropessimism”’ by Vinson Cunningham and ‘As Free as Blackness Will Make Us’ at Ill Will Editions: http://bit.ly/36hpJNu / http://bit.ly/3pnLS4g - The song featured is “hurtoknx.” by Knxwledge from the album GT.V2: https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/gt-v2 WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr ATTACK & DETHRONE: https://anchor.fm/adgodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Jennifer M. Cunningham (@jenmcunningham) reads her chapter "African American Language is Not Good English." (Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.) It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) produces the show and will be back as narrator next week. Chapter keywords: African American Language, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Ebonics, grammar, linguistics, Standard American English, Standard English, Standard Written English Here's Cunningham's 2017 bio from the book: Jennifer M. Cunningham is an associate professor of English at Kent State University at Stark. Her teaching and research center on the themes and connections among digital literacies, African American Language, and online pedagogies. Jennifer has a background in composition, linguistics, and education, earning her B.A. in integrated language arts, her M.A. in composition and linguistics, and her Ph.D. in literacy, rhetoric, and social practice. Among other scholarly activities, she has developed and taught online versions of research writing and first-year composition and is currently researching social presence in online writing classes as well as digital African American Language and Nigerian Pidgin English within digital messages. Her Twitter handle is @jenmcunningham, and her website is https://jencunningham.weebly.com/. Here's a 2020 update: Since publishing her chapter in Bad Ideas, Jennifer is currently the Writing Program Coordinator for Kent State University. She continues to research African American Language and recently submitted an NSF grant with a faculty member in computer science at another university with the hope of continuing her work by applying her methodological experience to a forensics linguistics project. As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas. All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

Leave a comment on your ideas for how I should celebrate my 100th episode. - PRACTICAL MAGIC by Alice Hoffman - https://amzn.to/3pwMl4k - MAMA DAY by Gloria Naylor - https://amzn.to/3eXAo31 - BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott - https://amzn.to/3nnpyGr with "Shitty First Drafts" essay - Romancing the Runoff - http://www.romancingtherunoff.com/ - Lexicon Valley - "White Author, Black English. Problem?" https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter/status/1326240548211073024   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarudCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive compensation for links to products on this site either directly or indirectly via affiliate links. Heartspell Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

This week's episode is a continuation of our discussion on Centering Blackness in Education. We are joined again by Dr. Lamar L. Johnson of Michigan State University to discuss Black Language, also known as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Ebonics. In 1996, the Oakland, California School District allowed Black English to be used in classrooms as a bridge for students to leverage their AAVE to learn Standard English. Along with Dr. Johnson, we explore how Black English is an important element of Black education and how it can be used to expand Black students' educational experiences. Lamar L. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy for Linguistic and Racial Diversity in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He is interested in the complex intersections of race, language, literacy, and education and how English language arts (ELA) classrooms can become racial justice sites. Sources Baldwin, J. (1979), If Black Language Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? New York Times, 29 July, 1979. Grieve, J., Nini, A. & Guo, D. (2018). Mapping Lexical Innovation on American Social Media. Journal of English Linguistics, 46(4), 293 - 319. Smitherman, G. (1998). Ebonics, King, and Oakland: Some folk don't believe fat meat is greasy. Journal of English Linguistics, 26(2), 97-107. Woodson, C. G. (1933). The Mis-Education of the Negro. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/racethrougheducation/support

Mark Twain famously depicted what he called the "Missouri Negro dialect" of Jim. Would that be acceptable today? Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on Lexicon Valley each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our show. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: lexiconvalley@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Twain famously depicted what he called the "Missouri Negro dialect" of Jim. Would that be acceptable today? Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on Lexicon Valley each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our show. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: lexiconvalley@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No sétimo episódio desta temporada vamos conhecer o "Black English", variação linguística existente nas periferias urbanas dos EUA e falada, principalmente por negros nativos estadunidenses.#vidasnegrasimportam

We have spoken about bilingualism with speakers of Spanish, Arabic, and Japanese. Last week we discussed identity as it relates to the Afro-LatinX community. Today we explore a debate that swings back and forth like a pendulum every few years. AAVE(African American Vernacular English) is also known as Black English or Ebonics. Is it a language and, if yes, do its speakers - typically African Americans - need ESL (English as a Second Language) support in school?

A longstanding mystery of Black English may finally be solved. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on Lexicon Valley each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our show. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: lexiconvalley@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A longstanding mystery of Black English may finally be solved. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on Lexicon Valley each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our show. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: lexiconvalley@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode SummaryDisney’s Cinderella thrilled Erin and Rachel almost as much as it thrilled 1950 audiences, with “almost” being the operative word. The co-hosts revisit their favorite topics of gender roles and colonization, while also debating what, exactly, dreams are made of for the second Disney princess. Episode BibliographyBeauchamp, F. (2010). Asian origins of Cinderella: The Zhuang storyteller of Guangxi. Oral Tradition, 25(2), 447-496.Cinderella. (2020, June 20). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinderellaCinderella (1950 fim). (2020, June 25) In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20200619065636/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1950_film)England, D. E., Descartes, L., Collier-Meek, M. A. (2011). Gender role portrayal and the Disney princesses. Sex Roles, 64, 555-567. Geronimi, C., Luske, H., & Jackson, W. (Directors). (1950). Cinderella [Film]. Walt Disney Animation Studios.Giaimo, C. (2017, June 14). The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-talesHiggs, S. (2016). Damsels in development: Representation, transition, and the Disney princess. Screen Education, 83, 62-69. Hovdestad, W. E., Hubka, D., & Tonmyr, L. (2009). Unwanted personal contact and risky situations in ten Disney animated feature films. Child Abuse Review, 18, 111-126. Huggins, N. I. (1971). Harlem renaissance. Oxford University Press. Mahar, W. J. (1985). Black English in early Blackface minstrelsy: A new interpretation of the sources of minstrel show dialect. American Quarterly, 37(2), 260-285.Maurice Rapf. (2020, June 25). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20190118074308/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rapf Rosalind Sibielski (2019) Reviving Cinderella: Contested Feminism and Conflicting Models of Female Empowerment in 21st-Century Film and Television Adaptations of “Cinderella”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 36:7, 584-610Tennant, A. (Director). (1998). Ever After: A Cinderella Story [Film]. Twentieth Century Fox Films. Tóth, Z. A. (2017). Disney’s violent women: In quest of a ‘fully real’ violent woman in American cinema. Brno Studies in English, 43(1), 185-212.Wood, N. (1996). Domesticating dreams in Walt Disney’s Cinderella. The Lion and the Unicorn, 20 (1), 25-43. doi:10.1353/uni.1996.0003.

On this episode of Speaking Of… I’m joined by my friend and colleague, Rachel Finley. Rachel is an actor, director, spoken-word artist, writer, and teacher specializing in acting, voice, and speech. Rachel is currently researching dialects of the African diaspora and I invited her as a follow-up to my last episode. I asked Rachel “What are your thoughts on the “So-Called African American Vernacular of English?” We talked about why AAVE is a useful term for linguists, but less so as a term to describe the accent of an entire race. Rachel shared her thoughts on what might be a better term, and offered perspectives on how she approaches researching and teaching accents of the diaspora (and beyond).You can find complete show notes and links to everything we’ve mentioned in the episode on https://www.voiceandspeechwithryan.com/podcast.

On this episode of Speaking Of… I’m joined by one of my oldest and dearest friends, Brandon Piper. In this episode, Brandon asked the question, “Why do we make assumptions about people’s race based on how they sound?” We talk about the technicalities of accent including the dialect, African American Vernacular of English, and what linguists have to say about his question, but we also talked about our personal experiences related to the biases and assumptions we experience in our own lives.You can find complete show notes and links to everything we’ve mentioned in the episode on https://www.voiceandspeechwithryan.com/podcast.

EP 74 - SUPERFLY In Honor of Black History Month G Moody highlights the film classic, SUPERFLY throughout this episode... NYC Mayor DeBlasio loses the locker AKA NYPD, Message to My Man TJ ~ Pay NO Attention, The Adventures of the Pander Man AKA Michael Bloomberg, Columbia University Linguist John McWhorter breaksdown Black English, Empire actor Jussie Smollet Re-indicted, Snoop Dogg embarks on his Apology Tour SUBSCRIBE to THIS THAT and THE THIRD with GMOODY on #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #GooglePodcasts #Stitcher #GMoody aka the #PyramidofPodcasting bringing you #NYStylePodcasting the rest are on some Stonehenge bulls^*! #thisthatandthethirdwithgmoody #podcast #GMoodyPodcast #podcaster #5star #podcasting #NYC #NY #TTATT #InternationalG #WhereisGMoody #GeraldMoody #MoodyMondays --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/g-moody/support

Don't Go See This Movie! It's Trash!! The Husband and Wife Team breakdown 'Harriet', including the acting, direction, cinematography, story, script, and who stood out within the B/S debacle that is 'Harriet'! What were they thinking?! Oh-- we know-- it's Halloween, so how's about a trick for you not a treat?! Go see this movie at your own risk, The Voice of The Filmmaker and The Voice of The Critic-- we always give you the truth from our perspective, and the truth about the 'Harriet' Film-- we need a new actor as the lead, the direction... well, watch the review. Black English actors should be shamed; Africans should be shamed! ------------- The Film Review: Movies Music Culture Politics Society Podcast Live Hosts: Crazy Dee & Tracey © 2019 Lordlandfilms.com, All Rights Reserved.

What exactly is language justice? Ada joins KB & KC, two sin vergüenzas de Miami and the hosts of Estoy Aquí podcast, to break it down in this special CROSSOVER EPISODE. As first generation Latinx immigrants we discuss how language connects us with ourselves, our stories and our experiences. How does the movement for language justice broaden to include gender diverse, non-sexist language, Black English, Spanglish and all the evolving ways we speak and communicate? Join us for this impassioned and emotional conversation about language loss and language reclamation.

Learn about how the way you talk could change your ability to learn; two of the biggest myths about wine; and why the manchineel tree is the most dangerous tree in the world. Please support today’s sponsor, WSJwine! Order now and they’ll add to your case 2 bonus California Cabernets and 2 Dartington Crystal glasses. https://www.wsjwine.com/0842005 In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: All of Your Relationships Are Affected by Your Code-Switching — https://curiosity.im/2I5diaB Do You Believe These 5 Wine Myths? — https://curiosity.im/2I681Qc You Should Avoid the Poisonous Manchineel, aka the "Tree of Death," at All Costs — https://curiosity.im/2I4NICw If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.

Today we explore the latest trend in fashion that has everyone from Katy Perry to Prada being accused of racism. Find out Sarah's theory about why this is happening. We discuss a popular video game in China where you have to raise a child from cradle to college. Hear why some people think there should be classes to learn "Black English." Sarah reveals the curious history of Vaseline and we discuss Susie's hatred of the slime trend. Plus we talk to sexpert, Dr. Chris, on sex positivity, polyamory, & "rebel love."

Written in 1974. Describes how Black Studies needs to be in elementary schools. One or two comments about "Black English" and "fitting in" to broader society.

Language not only defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators, but it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries. For example... How did different languages come to be? Why isn't there just a single language? How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? How does a language become extinct?   In today's episode I speak with Dr. John McWhorter, a linguist from Columbia University. He, addresses these and other issues, such as how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago has evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today. We go broad and deep. For the broad, we explore language families, starting with Indo-European, comprising languages from India to Ireland including English. Other language families discussed are Semitic, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Bantu, and Native American. This gets us into the heated debate over the first language. For the deep, we get into pidgins and creoles. When people learn a language quickly without being explicitly taught, they develop a pidgin version of it. Then if they need to use this pidgin on an everyday basis it becomes a real language, a creole. Some people argue that Black English is a creole, and Professor McWhorter really gets into this issue.    

Can you identify someone’s Race only by listening to the way they speak? Can you identify someone’s Race by the way they pronounce words? Can you identify someone’s Race by the the way they pattern a spoken phrase? We investigate the definition of speech against Race against the color of expectation.

In Talking Back, Talking Black devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black English, John McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals and rich history, while carefully examining the cultural, educational, and political issues that have undermined recognition of this transformative, empowering dialect. Talking Back, Talking Black takes us on a fascinating tour of a nuanced and complex language that has moved beyond Americaâ??s borders to become a dynamic force for todayâ??s youth culture around the world.

Are the slang, sounds, and syntax of Black English a kind of lingua franca for America's youth?   Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/podcastsplus. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: lexiconvalley@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the slang, sounds, and syntax of Black English a kind of lingua franca for America's youth?   Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/podcastsplus. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: lexiconvalley@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Rickford, professor of linguistics and humanities at Stanford University and author of The Story of Black English, shares his perspective on writing.