My friends were right. Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation. Among themselves, they speak standard English ...
In part due to the legacy of slavery and segregation in the United States, African Americans have developed their own ...
Their dialect will be referred to below as the Black English Vernacular (BEV). It is a remarkably consistent grammar, essentially the same as that found in other cities: Detroit, Chicago ...
President Taye Atske Selassie underscored that the battle of Adwa brought hope and victory to Africans and all black people ...