CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A unique culture maintained by African slave descendants along the U.S. southeastern Atlantic coast will be featured with a float in the presidential inaugural ...
WASHINGTON — Words like “gumbo” and “chigger” have roots in African words long ago, but those connections might have been lost if not for one of the first black linguists. Lorenzo Dow Turner’s ...
NMAF copy 39088019589217 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. NMAF copy 39088019589217 signed by author. What oona need fa kno' bout we" -- "Gullah talk" -- "Tings I 'member" -- "Tings fa ...
WASHINGTON -- Words like "gumbo" and "chigger" have roots in African words long ago, but those connections might have been lost if not for one of the first black linguists. Lorenzo Dow Turner's ...
About 700 visitors were in attendance at Sapelo Island, about 60 miles south of Savannah, before the collapse which tragically killed seven people and left three in critical condition. According to ...
The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum presents the groundbreaking exhibition “Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Communities through Language” on view from Aug. 9 through March 27 ...
This is how artist, Sunn m’Cheaux, described his reaction to The Charleston City Paper after learning he would be teaching at one of the more prestigious universities in the world. For the first time ...
African languages have influenced the dialects spoken by some Americans. The New Testament of the Bible has now been translated into that dialect. Consider the story of the Good Samaritan, who happens ...
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