cool and woke. Now, a new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with ...

She collaborated with leaders and African American history makers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Barack Obama In 2008, Barack Obama made history after he was elected as the first ...

ANALYSIS: Armed with printouts of tabloid news articles and a montage of video clips, Trump launched into a meandering ...

The Democratic Party has a “Black Elephant” problem they don’t want to talk about, African Americans to comprehend and voters to respond to on election day. That problem involves the growing ...

cool, bad meaning good." The research project is a collaboration between Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press, with Lanehart ...

and it’s suddenly cool to be Black now. Black America may even be on a path to its own “Golden Age of African Americans.” If so, it’s due significantly to the influence, and the sacrifices ...

I became interested in how both Guyanese Creole and African American Vernacular English are ... non-Black speakers use it incorrectly to sound cool. For example, I have heard such expressions ...

On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.

I’m working on a really cool story today about an extremely ... She is a rising senior at @ASU and is the youngest African American to ever be accepted into med school. She’s doing cancer ...

Pinkster is among an array of lesser-known African American holidays, although historians say it is likely one of the earliest. As the broader U.S. population prepares to honor Juneteenth ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "Out of Bounds: A History of African Americans and Golf in Memphis, Tennessee," reprinted with permission from the author, the Rev. L. LaSimba M. Gray Jr ...