Is the Term “People of Color” Acceptable in This Day and Age?
The words we use to describe groups of people say a lot about what we’re grappling with as a society.
Is the Term “People of Color” Acceptable in This Day and Age?
Language
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Can an iPhone App Help Save an Endangered Language?
As the world’s Indigenous languages fade away at an alarming rate, some people are turning to technology to preserve their ancestors’ native tongues—and the cultural knowledge held in them.
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Trump’s Tactics and Republican Speechlessness
Donald Trump has combined party politics and a familiar nationalist script with a uniquely American interpretation of free speech. The result is a racist rhetoric that has been frighteningly hard to stop.
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Unmanning Space Language
Language matters, as demonstrated by the recent discussion following the discovery of example sentences using sexist stereotypes in the Oxford Dictionary of English. Language about who goes into space also matters, both historically and again now as more people are on the International Space Station for longer-duration missions, and NASA, SpaceX, and others plan to send humans to Mars. When journalists write about a spacecraft, they often use …
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Talking Hands
Five women elders from remote Western Australia share the joys and meanings of Aboriginal sign language.
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The Myth of Free Speech
Anti-racism movements on U.S. campuses have raised a key question about language and freedom: Can we really say anything at any time?