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Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced as editor-in-chief of the new Oxford Dictionary of African American...
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoPopular words used in Black culture for centuries are making their way into Oxford’s newest...
Sho' You Right: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English is On The Way
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf you’ve ever seriously considered Black American English to be its own language, you aren’t the...
‘Mysterious’ inscription on ancient sphinx is deciphered, revealing ‘unusual’ message
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious”...
Stuck for inspiration? Try applying these 5 techniques from visual art to your music production
MusicRadar via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoPiano. Although music is a form of art, when we talk about art, many people think only of visual art...
What's a laureate? A classicist explains the word's roots in Ancient Greek victors winning crowns of...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLaurel was an ancient symbol of medicine, the arts and the end of war. naphtalina/E+ via Getty...
Without ‘pretentiousness’, we wouldn’t have Bowie or the Beatles
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTen years ago I wrote a book called Pretentiousness: Why It Matters. I was an editor at a...