Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began researching and teaching what academics call African American Vernacular English, or the everyday speech of ...

One of the toughest transitions Kyla Jenée Lacey endured in her life was when her family moved from diverse Chicago to Winter Springs, Fla., a predominantly White city about 30 minutes north of ...

Ifyou are an African American who grew up in integrated spaces, you may have had the not-so-pleasant experience of others calling African American Vernacular English (AAVE) “bad grammar” or “talking ...

Denise Troutman was teaching at Bennett College in North Carolina when she came across an article titled "Black English" in Psychology Today. It was that moment years ago when she decided it was time ...

Lizzo slams white people for picking up African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and bashing Black people, the originators, for using it. She called for it to be gatekept. The “About Damn Time” ...

Tamar Huggins and her 13-year-old daughter's ChatGPT alternative changes classical literature to African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Tamar Huggins and her 13-year-old daughter raised $1.4 ...