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Following conservative writer Bethany Mandel's viral on-air "woke" moment, we thought of 10 other terms mercilessly taken from Black culture.
On December 18, 1996, the school district in Oakland, Calif. passed an amendment to designate Ebonics as a main language of its predominantly African-American student base. The move was met with outrage and resistance, leading to changes in the amendment. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER: The term Ebonics has since been replaced with a more […]
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