Other Creole people mentioned in passing: Homer Plessy, the Creole shoemaker, plaintiff in the 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson upholding segregation (7–1), and George Doyle, a police officer in the New Orleans that mostly barred Black people from its ranks in the early 20th century.

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In prolific replies, many readers contest that the audio clip of Emma Benoit is Creole. They say it's almost entirely French. Leo Sands (the NYT writer) piped up that in the full recording, Dr. Turner keeps encouraging her to go back to Creole. Benoit reverted to French in a formal setting.

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Linguists, Creole speakers and Louisianians, listen up! "Lorenzo Dow Turner, a pioneering Black scholar of linguistics. He was crisscrossing southern Louisiana in the summer of 1935 with an enormous recording device that weighed 100 pounds and required at least two people to carry."

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The @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2027 @uncpress.bsky.social catalog is here! view.inkara.io/gbtjxyidhqa8... From the politics of feeding our kids to the making of American myths, there's so 👏 much 👏 freaking 👏 good 👏 stuff coming. A few I'm especially excited about (here comes a 🧵)...

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They all hurt but this one hurts a lil more. Saddened by the news Sir Patrick Stewart is no longer with us... Adieu, Mon Capitaine ❤️❤️❤️

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