New dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

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New Tavis Smiley interview about the project
They discuss the project, history, language, dialect, slang, the "Ebonics" controversy from the 1990s ,and at @25:30 they speak directly about mainstream Culture Vultures co-opting language

Sonja Lanehart on "Tavis Smiley"​

Sonja Lanehart - Professor of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education as well as a Faculty Fellow in the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English. The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. She joins Tavis to speak on this latest attempt to “codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language
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[OfTheCross]

I dunno about this one, tbh. So are they going to write down the Blaccent or try to keep up with slang like Urban dictionary?

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I think this is good and I am excited for it. I definitely have had trouble with some folks after moving down here to charlotte from DC. Somehow "dockerin" = doctorate and I hope some of those things will be preserved. As we head towards a more cosmopolitan / urban / urban identity collectively regional words, pronounciations, and idioms will lost that definite cultures and identities within an insular, albeit disconnected environment.

 

[King Kai]

Imagine random Twitter cacs buying this to get some more likes

 

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Updated the OP with this Tavis Smiley interview with one of the advising editors for the project, Sonja Lanehart