IN AN airy first-floor study, Eldred Jones, who is 93, takes a break from his Braille Bible to talk about how he first left Sierra Leone to study at Oxford. Later he became principal of west Africa’s ...

Haitian Creole is a national language, but Creole speakers can encounter prejudice, so some were thrilled to see “The Ransom” offered in Creole. By Catherine Porter The New York Times’s “Ransom” ...

A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

Despite uncharacteristically wintry weather, the scene at the 7th Ward’s Neighborhood Story Project was warm and convivial recently as 40 to 50 people gathered to eat, drink, dance and celebrate the ...