Tag Archives: interest-blackhistory

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   A Linguistic Spotlight On Black Language Scholars

   The study of Black language is a complex and rich field. While many scholars focus their rigorous research on African American Vernacular English, others painstakingly examine pidgin languages, which are simplified versions of a language as used by speakers of different languages to communicate.  Still other scholars are renowned creolists who specialize in the study of the creole languages that emerge from mixtures of multiple …

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   Black Wall Street And The Tulsa Massacre, Defined

   by Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D. The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Oklahoma race massacre known as the Tulsa Massacre, which resulted in the death of more than 300 Black Americans and the total destruction of 40 blocks of a Black residential neighborhood and business district called Greenwood and nicknamed Black Wall Street. And while news spread across the US about this tragedy at …