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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.”
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will provide editorial direction to Oxford University Press as it devises a dictionary exclusively dedicated to African-American Vernacular English.