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In September, Vicki Martin announced she will retire from her position as president of Milwaukee Area Technical College.

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, from Henry Louis Gates focuses on contributions Afro-Americans made to English language.

(CNN) — Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will

The abbreviation stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion, but definitions of those words, and the concept, have been politicized and compromised.

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who love language.”