A monthly podcast in which Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky explore life and language in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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A monthly podcast in which Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky explore life and language in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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Recent Episodes
April 11, 2026
Ep. 22: African American English in the 757
<p>Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky</p><p>Date: April 10, 2026</p><p>Length: 37 minutes</p><p>Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month</p><p><br>In this episode we explore African American English, its history, features, and variations, including in Hampton Roads, aka the 757. </p><p>We interview three black academics in the region to learn about AAE and what defines it. </p><p>We talk to <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Iyabo Osiapem</strong>, teaching professor of Africana Studies and Linguistics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. Founded in 1693, It’s the only university in the state to offer an undergraduate major in linguistics. At Hampton University in Hampton, the city where the first African indentured servants and slaves arrived in North America in 1619, we speak to<strong> Dr. Darylyn Dance</strong>, a specialist in rhetoric and composition. We also talk to <strong>Dr. Travis Harris, </strong>a hip hop scholar who teaches at Norfolk State University in Norfolk. </p><p>From them we learned about the distinctive syntactical and pronunciation features of the AAE dialect; various theories of its development, including from West African languages; some distinctive local vocabulary; the influence of hip hop in its evolution; and its controversial history related to education, including the 1979 Ann Arbor case and the 1997 Oakland decision.</p><p>We learn about its labels over the years, including “non-standard Negro English” used by white linguist William Labov, “the father of sociolinguistics,” who pioneered research into AAE in the 1960s, We learn about the work of African American linguist John Baugh in exposing linguistic profiling and the development of the ebonics label by educational psychologist Robert Williams, inventor of the BITCH test which highlighted cultural bias in standardized testing. Finally, we discuss attitudes to language variation. </p><p>Here are some of the books and authors the three professors recommended for AAE: </p><p>Olaudah Equiano (18th century)(enslaved, freed, went to UK) slave narratives, letters, poems;</p><p>essayist and journalist Charles Chesnutt (turn of the 20th century) <u>The Goophered Grapevine;</u></p><p><strong>Poetry </strong>by Frances Ellen Watkins (19th century); by Paul Laurence Dunbar (19th century); by Countee Cullen (early 20th century); by Langston Hughes (20th century); George Schuyler journalist, columnist, critic (20th century); Phyllis Wheatley, born in Africa, writing in second language; <u>Imami All Mine</u> by Connie Porter (This American Girl series); Zora Neale Hurston, <u>Their Eyes are Watching God; </u>Alice Childress, <u>Rainbow Jordan; </u> <u>The Color Purple</u> by Alice Walker; <u>Dutchman</u> (1964 play) by Amiri Baraka; Sonia Sanchez (20th century) poet, playwright, professor; Maya Angelou; Toni Morrison;Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution will not be Televised” (“godfather of rap”); academic articles by Vershawn Ashanti Young (contemporary); Bernice McFadden, “Sugar” (2000)</p><p>For those interested in hip-hop, the<strong> W&M Hip Hop Collection</strong>, started in the 1980s, is part of Swem Library’s Special Collections and includes recordings, publications, and ephemera from Virginia based hip hop artists. Local stars include Pharell and Clipse (the brothers Pusha T and No Malice).Send your questions and feedback to <a href="mailto:languagingHR@gmail.com"><u>languagingHR@gmail.com</u></a>; and for more information and to listen to previous episodes, check out our website, <a href="http://www.languaginghr.wordpress.com"><u>www.languaginghr.wordpress.com</u></a>.</p><p><br></p>
December 15, 2025
Ep. 20 Bonus: An Interview with Clay Jenkinson (unfiltered) aka Thomas Jefferson
<p>Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads</p><p>Episode 20 Bonus: Interview with Clay Jenkinson (unfiltered) on being Thomas Jefferson</p><p>Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky</p><p>Date: Dec. 15, 2025</p><p>Length: 45 minutes</p><p>Publication Frequency: Monthly (approx)</p><p>In this bonus episode, we talk to Clay Jenkinson, humanities scholar and longtime host of The Thomas Jefferson Hour (now Talking with America, <a href="http://ltamerica.org"><u>ltamerica.org</u></a> ) on National Public Radio, about how he portrays the nation’s 3rd president and author of the Declaration of Independence.</p><p>In a 90-minute interview, edited to 45 minutes, Jenkinson describes both his vast admiration for Jefferson, his political ideas and his writings, and the impossibility of reconciling the Founding Father’s words about liberty and equality with the fact that he owned 600 slaves over his lifetime. </p><p>The hypocrisy and inherent conflict is one reason that Jenkinson finds the character interesting. He has studied and portrayed Jefferson for more than 40 years. He notes that the Virginian who had a 34-year affair with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, maintained a wall of silence about slavery that his friends and political contemporaries never challenged.</p><p>Other conflicted characters that Jenkinson portrays include Meriwether Lewis, Robert J. Oppenheimer, and John Steinbeck.</p><p>Jenkinson explains the 3-part Chautauquan method he developed in the 1970s to interpret historical figures: an unscripted monologue, followed by a Q and A in character, followed by breaking character and speaking as himself. </p><p>Three years ago, as Jefferson became increasingly persona non grata with the public, Jenkinson changed the title of his show to Talking to America. He talks of the necessity but also his regret and his belief in the “whole person” approach – and mostly he believes that people today have a lot to learn from Jefferson. He dubs himself a Jeffersonian and expresses deep concern about the current political climate in the U.S. Jenkinson is the director of The Dakota Institute and is teaching courses on the U.S. Constitution and the fall of the Roman Republic.</p><p>For more on Jenkinson and his use of 18th century language in his interpretation of Thomas Jefferson, listen to Ep. 20: Talk like a Revolutionary! Be Polite! <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/languaginghr/id1727246364?i=1000734616760"><u>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/languaginghr/id1727246364?i=1000734616760</u></a></p><p>Send us feedback and questions at <a href="mailto:languagingHR@gmail.com"><u>languagingHR@gmail.com</u></a>; and for more information and to access all our past episodes, check out our website at <a href="http://languaginghr.wordpress.com"><u>languagingHR.wordpress.com</u></a></p><p>LanguagingHR is available free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeartRadio. Don’t forget to like, follow, and subscribe!</p><p><br></p>
November 1, 2025
Ep. 20 Talk like a Revolutionary: Be Polite!
<p>Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads</p><p>Episode 20: How to Talk Like a Revolutionary: Be polite!</p><p>Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky</p><p>Date: Oct. 31, 2025</p><p>Length: 43 minutes</p><p>Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month</p><p>Colonial Williamsburg, the restored Colonial capital (until 1780) of Virginia lies at the northwestern edge of Hampton Roads, part of a historic triangle with Yorktown and Jamestown. Since it opened as “the world’s largest U.S. history museum” in the 1930s, it has been telling the story of the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. To learn about all its tours, programs, activities and educational programs, go to <a href="http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org"><u>www.colonialwilliamsburg.org</u></a>.</p><p>In this episode we explore how CW’s use of 18th century language contributes to understanding the men and women who drove revolutionary change in the turbulent years before and after the American Revolution. We learn about the distinctive features of speech at the time of the Declaration of Independence, whose 250th anniversary is next year, 2026. </p><p>We talk to <strong>Cathleene Hellier,</strong> senior historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, who authored the book, “18th Century English as a Second Language” (2011, out of print). She discusses the hundreds of primary sources she used to understand how language has changed over the past 250 years and its significance. </p><p>We shared the book with humanities scholar <strong>Clay Jenkinson,</strong> host of Listening to America (formerly The Thomas Jefferson Hour) on NPR, <a href="https://ltamerica.org/"><u>https://ltamerica.org/</u></a></p><p> and the country’s best-known Thomas Jefferson impersonator. He details the textbook’s relevant points and describes his own literature-based method of conveying the thoughts of the nation’s third president. </p><p> CW’s Nation Builders program offers first-person interpretations of 18th century Virginians, both the well-known, such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and the lesser-known, including a preacher, a teacher, and a barkeep, all of whose lives impacted the community.</p><p>We attended a Nation Builders performance at the Kimball Theatre, with <strong>Stephen Seals</strong> portraying James (Armistead) Lafayette, a formerly enslaved African-American who earned his freedom for his spying services for the Patriots during the Revolutionary War; and Robert Weathers, who represents <strong>George Wythe</strong>, a jurist, scholar, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. </p><p>Hellier addresses the difficulties in portraying African-American history in the Colonial period and details the extensive research she’s done into the language varieties of the time. She’s a contributor to <a href="http://enslaved.org"><u>enslaved.org</u></a>, a database of information regarding enslaved people worldwide. She touts the importance of the Virginia Gazette newspaper as a source (digitized copies are available on the CW website, <a href="http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org"><u>www.colonialwilliamsburg.org</u></a>.) We’re reminded too of the newspaper resources collected by the Library of Virginia, <a href="https://www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/digital-collections"><u>https://www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/digital-collections</u></a></p><p>And the Valentine Museum in Richmond has a rich repository of African-American history, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/"><u>https://thevalentine.org/</u></a></p><p>Check out our website, <a href="http://languaginghr.wordpress.com"><u>languagingHR.wordpress.com</u></a>. Send your feedback and questions to <a href="mailto:languagingHR@gmail.com"><u>languagingHR@gmail.com</u></a>. Visit us on facebook and Instagram, and be sure to like, follow, review! Thanks for listening!</p><p><br></p>
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