Did Republicans lead the charge in electing Black politicians? We don’t need to know who you’re voting for but we are interested in how the end of the Civil War meant the start of Black people in US Government and the resilience required by these OG Black politicians to occupy space in a government that […]
Excerpt from the premiere version of the documentary, TALKING BLACK in AMERICA. www.talkingblackinamerica.org For the DVD visit www.languageandlife.org look for TALKING BLACK in AMERICA on PBS in 2019 _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ African American Vernacular English is a learned language system, governed by strict grammatical rules and all of the other properties of any language system. In […]