On December 18, 1996, the school district in Oakland, Calif. designated Ebonics as a main language of its predominantly African-American student base. The move was…
When it comes to our use of the English language, it seems that black people just can’t win, no matter what end of the mastery…
One day while in the office, an Iranian woman I worked for as her personal assistant, asked to speak to me and told me that I needed to work on my accent. Now, this coming from a woman who herself had an accent that I could barely understand at times, you can understand why this was […]
