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 ...

His example provided a foundation for the emergence of the concept of cool itself from African American culture in the 1940s. Ambrotype, 1856, National Portrait Gallery, acquired through the ...

to understand [how] cool originates as a slang term in jazz, first introduced in the late ’30s and early ’40s, and popular among a group of African- American jazz musicians. It has wide ...

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 ...

Voters of color concerns about voting rights are "misplaced," McConnell said, "as African American voters are voting in as high a percentage as Americans." The lawmakers say the maps approved by a ...

Kisha’s Kids is our latest find! They carry a variety of products designed for African-American children that are high quality, Pottery Barn-esque that will improve the atmosphere of your home ...

Nigerian music star Davido has offered a candid warning to Black Americans considering relocating ... the economic and living conditions in many African nations, which includes his home country ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.