In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary of African American English gave a status update on the project. As academics explained their ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will provide editorial direction to Oxford University Press as it devises a dictionary exclusively dedicated to African-American Vernacular English.

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English will also include “old school,” or its variant “old skool” — characteristic of hip-hop or rap music born in New York City as the 1970s ...

The dictionary will serve as a record of the ways Black people have molded English to protect themselves, Harvard researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. said.

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English will also include “old school,” or its variant “old skool” — characteristic of hip-hop or rap music born in New York City as the 1970s ...