Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

It is a third and expanded edition of a full-length dictionary of the Native American language Lakota. And I mean full-length. The New Lakota Dictionary, compiled by the Lakota Language Consortium ...

but what about the Dictionary of American Regional English? In 1965, researchers from the American Dialect Society set out on an ambitious undertaking, spending the next five years conducting in ...

“The bottom line of the African American people, when you read this dictionary,” Gates said, “is that you’ll say these are people who love language.” ...

OPINION: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, which will be edited by noted historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., will tell the story of Black people in a new way. Editor’s note: The ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a literary critic and African American history professor ... decision to include the words in the English language dictionary. “Because we want to show how Black ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on ...