(Mis)Understanding AAVE
On December 18, 1996, the Oakland Unified School District passed a resolution for public schools to use AAVE as a tool in teaching standard English and to provide resources to...
Unlike the origins of AAVE, a topic full of debates and unknowns, the spread and development of this dialect is easy to understand. Although there are two main theories of how AAVE came to be, the way...
Dani Tirrell
Dani Tirrell is a movement artist, dancer, and choreographer who expands on many principles and ideas from the African Diaspora. Tirrell’s work dives into identity, expression, and...
Naima Joseph
Naima Joseph is a freshman at Garfield this year. They would describe their style as falling into the “emo and lolita subcultures of alternative fashion”. Currently, Joseph’s favorite...
Nadia Caty
Junior
What things are you passionate about and why? What groups/organizations and projects do you work with?
“I am passionate about a lot of things, it is hard to pinpoint...
African American Vernacular English, or AAVE for short, is an alternative form of speech to standard American English. Although there is no specific date for when AAVE was created, it is said that the...
