coming in 2024
TALKING BLACK IN AMERICA –– SOCIAL JUSTICE is the fifth program in the Emmy award-winning Talking Black in America series and a culmination of the themes and concerns underlying the entire series. It is an exposé of linguistic discrimination and its lifelong consequences in the lives of individual Black Language speakers in the areas of education, the workplace, housing, healthcare, the legal system and more, but it also showcases Black Language as a source of strength and solidarity in the fight against oppression, and celebrates it as one of the most vital and dynamic influences on American culture and throughout the world.
“That’s a powerful statement to me — it shouldn’t be, but it is — that Black Lives Matter. Black Language matters.” — Elaine Richardson, Ohio State University
A production of the Language & Life Project at NC State University.