The Twitterverse Is Irked After A Clueless ‘SNL’ Skit Wrongly Attributed AAVE To Gen Z

AAVE originated in the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, coinciding with the first 100 years of British colonization according to Oxford Handbooks Online. Despite its origins, AAVE rose to prominence in the South during slavery, and made its way across the country during The Great Migration per PBS. “In the large cities you […]

Twitterverse Engrossed In Debate Over Women Taking Their Husband’s Surname After Marriage

The New York Times found in a 2015 analysis that around 70% of women in the United States take on their husband’s family name upon marriage, a number that suggests an allegiance to a cultural paradigm that has existed since medieval times. Simon Duncan, a professor of family life at the University of Bradford in the […]