Nora and Arthur from the new movie "Past Lives" have a loving marriage and a fulfilling creative partnership. She's a playwright. He's an author. But they're so different in so many other ways. MAGARO ...

Jamila Lyiscott, founder and co-director of the Cyphers for Justice advocacy program, spoke about the power of language and its relationship to African American identity and power. Lyiscott, currently ...

When a woman in a small village in southern Mexico heard verses from the New Testament in her language for the first time, ...

Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue: A Pasifika Story on the World Stage.

Join La Alianza, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the vice president for student affairs in celebration of 2021 Hispanic Heritage Month with a lecture by Brenda Domínguez-Rosado ...

A new study suggests that the language a bilingual person speaks can affect their physical sensations, depending on the cultural association tied to each vernacular. We take for granted the fact that ...

Representations of Afghan cultural identity in the American consciousness are few and far between. It would be hard to dispute that the most famous of these representations is authored by Khaled ...

Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

Imagine driving through California’s sunlit streets, approaching a crosswalk that tells you to “SLOW.” But something’s off — it’s misspelled: “SOLW.” The word echoes in your mind as soul. “That moment ...

When Christina Mangurian’s abuelita was diagnosed with leukemia, Mangurian and her mother were very involved in the older woman’s care. Mangurian would sit by her abuelita’s side in the hospital, and ...

Mexican Americans interviewed in Spanish (vs. English) tend to have worse self-rated health despite their low morbidity and mortality. This project tests whether this language-of-interview effect also ...