The U.S. government's recent call for Ebonics translators to serve a drug-enforcement region that includes South Florida renews a decades-old debate: What exactly is Ebonics, and should law ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Posted on the wall of Carrie Secret’s classroom, handwritten cards in careful cursive strokes list the primary language of her black fifth-graders as “Ebonics.” Over in a corner ...

"I can already see the improvement in oral language skills," she says. "I'm building on what the children know." Since Dec. 18, when the Oakland school board passed a muddled resolution to treat ...

The unique speech patterns of African-Americans over the years have been the inspiration for poetry, spirituals, jazz, blues, rap and other lyrical art forms. Yet the vernacular also has been the ...

For all the talk about what a subtle business the n-word is, the concept of Ebonics is just as tricky. And in the wake of the theatrically pat culmination of the Dr. Laura drama — her exiting stage ...

Wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration: Ebonics translators. It might sound like a punch line, as “Ebonics” — the common name for what linguists call African-American English — has long been ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking Ebonics translators to interpret wire-tapped conversations. Critics fear the move by a federal agency could set a precedent. But linguist John McWhorter ...

America’s unreflective dismissal of Ebonics is rather fascinating, not because many see it as a “lesser” form of English, but rather because society fails, for the most part, to dip its feet into the ...