African American Vernacular English is a stigmatized dialect that is still ridiculed in education and the workplace. Its speakers are coherent and intelligent communicators, but remain disadvantaged.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a streaming platform that will also be available in Black American Sign ...

Tracey Weldon, who worked as a linguist in higher education for nearly 30 years, said African American Vernacular English shares certain features like multiple negation ("she ain’t got no money ...

Some Instagram creators are using Google’s Veo 3 and racking up millions of views on AI videos of “bigfoot baddies.” They’ll ...

Some Black speakers of African American Vernacular English believe the language has been incorrectly chalked up as new vocabulary started by young people. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Another resource for Black linguistics is on the way. In the next few years, we will have the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. According to The New York Times, this new dictionary is ...

Studies from the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech show that younger generations—both Black and white—are adopting […] ...

She felt like the token Black girl - and she quickly realized that speaking African American Vernacular English (AAVE) to her White classmates would only make people question her intelligence.

Echoing the speech patterns of her white colleagues, she avoided African American Vernacular English, spoke in a quieter voice and buttoned down her mannerisms.

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) references the language being used in more casual settings. However, as time progressed, language scholars realized that AAVE is spoken in a variety of ...