Merriam-Webster Dictionary has been defining words since 1828 and has been ‘woke’ since 2021. A few months ago the online dictionary source added a note to the definition of “color-blind.” After the ...
Lexicographer Kory Stamper’s ‘True Color’ (Knopf, Mar.) profiles early-20th-century scientists Margaret and I.H. Godlove, who ...
NEW YORK — The American reference dictionary Merriam-Webster will change its definition of the word racism at the suggestion of a young black woman, who wanted it to better reflect the oppression of ...