“Justice for Jeantel (and Trayvon): Fighting Dialect Prejudice in Courtrooms and Beyond.”

Professor John Rickford of Stanford University will deliver this year’s annual Freeman Lecture in Linguistics, in ILC, N151 Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 2:30 pm

Professor Rickford is a world-renowned expert in the structure, history, and dialectology of African American English. He is the author of numerous books on AAE, including ‘Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English’, ‘African American Vernacular English’, and his most recent book, ‘African American, Creole, and Other English Vernaculars in Education’.

https://www.umass.edu/linguistics/event/freeman-lecture-professor-john-rickford-stanford-university