How The New Oxford Dictionary of African American English Will Pay Tribute To & Protect the Legacy of Black Americans
Harvard historian and "Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been named Editor in Chief of the dictionary that is set to document hundreds of years of AAVE.
From Ebonics to the modern term AAVE (African American Vernacular English), there have been many names for African American English.
Similar to the way hundreds of other English countries have their own…
