The Complicated Acceptance Of Black English
(ArtsJournal Theatre)

Black English is not a degraded variety of the language-it´s an alternate form of English. If a sentence like People be lookin´ at him funny seems unsophisticated because the be isn´t conjugated, try wrapping your head around the fact that the be also expresses, overtly, a nuance that the standard sentence would not-that this looking in question happens on a habitual […]