There are two schools of thought regarding the origins of black English, or Ebonics, the Anglian tradition and the African tradition. Anglian scholars believe black English goes back to British ...

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 ...

One autumn afternoon in Chicago about 20 years ago, an African-American secretary in a university office saw me admiring a large framed photograph of Frederick Douglass. She volunteered that when the ...

When the headlines appeared this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had issued a request to hire up to nine linguists proficient in Ebonics, it appeared it might be yet another cruel ...

LITTLE ROCK — The man considered to be one of the fathers of black psychology - and the father of “ebonics” - was born in Arkansas. A blend of the words “ebony” and “phonics” to describe a type of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well for those worried about finding a job in the recession, I got a hot lead for you: The Justice Department is looking for translators. Don’t speak a foreign language, you say? No worries, this job ...