It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

Vice President Kamala Harris raised eyebrows with another round of circular speech at an event commemorating Women's History Month Wednesday. Harris, along with President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill ...

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

Someday when the cultural moment that many have called “The Great Awokening” is finally, mercifully, over, Americans of all races should fight to give African Americans their word back. Less than 10 ...

While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just ...

In South Africa “umlungu” is a word that’s commonly used to refer to white people. It comes from isiXhosa, the language of the country’s Xhosa people. It’s always been a mystery how the word ...

Ever since its first use, in the sixth century, the word “modern” has been a term of opposition, writes Patricia Seed, a professor of history at Rice University. It remains “an empty signifier that we ...