The columnist-musician Sean of the South (aka Sean Dietrich) lived in Tallahassee for “a hot minute,” as he put it. The folksy future humorist had moved into an ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a term for “that last bit of dessert or food that people are too ...

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“I’m right here nigger,” a voice screamed in the dark Lawrence High School parking lot. Nothing like a high school basketball game, in this case a quarterfinal showdown between top-seed Lawrence and ...

Sir, – Recently President Catherine Connolly sought to promote the idea that our native tongue is endowed with a greater facility than our spoken language when it comes to delivering the right word ...

Tina and Milo — the sibling mascots representing the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, respectively — have been bouncing around Milan and Cortina, chopping it up with Snoop Dogg and cheering ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a term for “the rows and piles of snow that are produced by plows ...

If you can’t use the word Black in Black History Month…is it just History Month? That’s the question Aaliyah Steward, a Florida A&M University law student, is asking herself after the HBCU gave her ...

It’s Monday so it must be time to see how many words you can find in this flowering game. Need help? Click on the three-bar menu at top left for instructions on how to play. And you can find previous ...

A Florida A&M University College of Law student says administrators asked her to remove or alter the word “Black” from promotional materials for a Black History Month event. She described the ...