The Oxford Dictionary of African American English

Hear from experts and scholars from the Oxford English Dictionary and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard about their forthcoming project - The Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
The dictionary documents the evolution of African American English and its influence on American English and pop culture across the globe, using a combination of in-depth scholarly research and crowd-sourced material. The dictionary is set to be released in 2025.
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[@OldschoolLV67]

I love this project and hope the dictionary arrives before I die.

[@hannahnorman-ostrem1702]

Appalachian language is very similar.

[@timotheewilliams9086]

One thing I wish people would stop doing is calling ourselves "African-Americans", we are BLACK AMERICANS, our culture, traditions and views on WHYTE SUPREMACY is different.

[@ethanrobertson3008]

You are a African in America.

[@mwebazegilbert2008]

😂😂😂😂

[@leannewheeler5351]

Interesting. But, who is the dictionary for? For whose benefit?

[@LizTiddington]

Not trying to be unhelpful, it's for everyone. One of the key ways you save, preserve and document a language is giving it a dictionary and a grammar (and having it be written or otherwise recorded). In this way anyone in the future doing research on AAE Will have a proper scientific resource there. Anyone who wants to know how their ancestors spoke will have something there.