Researchers are working to preserve Black languages like African American English and Black American Sign Language and reduce stigma around them. Senate Republicans pass Trump's sweeping tax, ...

From DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets to Prophets of Da City and Mode 9, here’s how African history has influenced hip-hop – and vice-versa – 50 years after the genre was born.

Colin Kaepernick, African art: AP African American studies reworked after controversy Florida education officials, saying the course "lacked educational value," rejected the class, but the course ...

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

The study concluded that an African American born between 1960 and 1965 has, on average, 314 African ancestors and 51 European ancestors. For Noah Rosenberg, senior author of the study and a biology ...

Some Black speakers of African American Vernacular English believe the language has been incorrectly chalked up as new vocabulary started by young people.

O n the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.. Only ...

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming less overtly racist, but respond negatively to text in African American English. Such ‘covert’ racism could harm speakers of this dialect when LLMs ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.