(CNN) -- Adding a word to the dictionary has long been a sign of mainstream legitimacy. And in the latest batch added to Dictionary.com, the online dictionary has included multiple African American ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

Lizzo slams white people for picking up African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and bashing Black people, the originators, for using it. She called for it to be gatekept. The “About Damn Time” ...

Howard University partnered with Google to release data tied to artificial intelligence (AI) speech recognition for people of color. The university provided research on Black speech known as African ...

When John Rickford (Stevenson, ‘71, sociolinguistics) arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968, the fledgling three-year-old campus was small, scrappy, bold, and adventurous, with a ...