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” ...
Considering the way social media has adapted AAVE terms as “pop culture” language, the dictionary additions seem a little, well, sus. Coming from the northeast, I often heard “suspect” as a term used ...