Speak Ebonics? You may have a future at the Drug Enforcement Administration. Yes, academics and culture warriors may argue endlessly over the merits of “black English” as a subject to be taught or ...

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 ...

A 1989 study of inner-city college students, for example, found that those who used texts contrasting Ebonics with standard English included fewer Ebonics constructions in their own writing than those ...

Last year's media uproar over Ebonics missed the point. What's really important is not what kind of language Ebonics isn't, but what kind it is. To James Baldwin, writing in 1979, it was this passion, ...

THERE'S a predictable kerfuffle over the news that America's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking for people to translate wiretaps into English from, among other languages, Ebonics. The ...

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The L. A. Unified school district's controversial “Ebonics” curriculum for black students has fared poorly in a preliminary evaluation, according to data obtained by the Weekly. Results of the ...