Influencer Brittany Broski, better known as 'Kombucha Girl,' landed in hot water after discussing criticism of her usage of African American Vernacular English phrases like "periodt" and "Chile, ...

(Washington, DC) - A new scientific study reveals the critical role that dialect unfamiliarity and prejudice against speakers of African American Vernacular English [AAVE] and other non-standard ...

Elon Musk's awkward attempt at comedy was only the second most controversial part of the latest Saturday Night Live. The May 8 episode opened with a sketch that quickly drew tons of criticism online, ...

A new book by two North Carolina State University linguists challenges a half-century of sociolinguistic theory and takes a fresh look at the history of the controversial and highly visible ethnic ...

Millennial Michael Che just got a lesson in writing about Gen Z, thanks to social media critics who accused his “Gen Z Hospital” sketch of placing African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the ...

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” ...