WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Anacostia Community Museum presents the groundbreaking exhibition Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Community through Language on view from Aug. 9 through March 27, 2011. Curated by Alcione Amos and the first exhibition based almost entirely on one of the museums special collections, Word, Shout, Song looks at the life, research and scholarship of Lorenzo Dow Turner, perhaps the first African American linguist. It also focuses on how his discoveries linked communities in Africa to the New World through language. In assembling this exhibition, most exciting to me was how I was able to connect words from Portuguese, Gullah and English to their African origins, 80 years later, based on Turners work in the 1930s, said Amos. His work is still relevant today. Word, Shout, Song is three stories in one: scholar