Essence Magazine:
By Melissa Noel ·Updated June 21, 2022
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and American Research, will provide editorial guidance to Oxford as it develops a dictionary dedicated to African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
“African American English has had a profound impact on the world’s most widely spoken language, yet much of it has been obscured,” Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Languages at Oxford University Press
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