© 2024 Texas Public Radio
Real. Reliable. Texas Public Radio.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

How A College Graduate Prompted Merriam-Webster Dictionary To Update Definition Of Racism

For the full article, click here.

Recent college grad Kennedy Mitchum wasn’t satisfied with Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition of “racism.” In May, she emailed the editors about revising its definition.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley revisits her conversation with Mitchum about the word and its meaning.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Tags