The Oxford Dictionary of African American English

We'll Never Need to Explain What Our "Kitchen " is To Another White Person—Again.
The new Oxford Dictionary of African American English will be edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Your days of explaining what words like “bussin” and “grill” mean to white people may be soon be coming to an end. Instead, you can tell them to look it up in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

You heard that right. The new dictionary, which is a partnership between the Oxford English Dictionary and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, will be made up entirely of words created by or reinvented by Black folks