Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton

Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton

Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton is a reporter at the Denver Post. She writes for Smithsonian magazine, Delish and other publications. For two years, she chased after lawmakers on Capitol Hill as Bloomberg Government's agriculture and trade policy reporter.

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Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in California and New York.

A Brief History of the United States’ Accents and Dialects

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (center) leads his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Golden Eagles, on Super Sunday.

What You Should Know About the Mardi Gras Indians

For more than a century, New Orleans’ Black residents have donned Native-inspired attire to celebrate Carnival