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Black vernacular doesn’t often get its due—despite its enormous influence on mainstream culture—but Historically Black Phrases is here to give Black language its flowers. A celebration of more than two hundred staples of Black conversation—from church sayings and units of measure to compliments and reprimands—this sharp and witty guide explores the unique importance of Black expression and communication.

Do you ever think that there is something wrong with the state of our society and the world, or things might not be what they seem to be? Maybe your friends and family have told you too many times that you're reading too much into it, but you still cannot shake this strange gut feeling. We all know the storm is coming, and it will swipe the naysayers off of their feet. It won't be too long before the whole world wakes up to the global cabal of wicked elites working against mankind.

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.