As an Englishwoman living in the U.S., I am intrigued by the whole Ebonics question ... but with a middle-class Liverpool accent. – In school we all spoke grammatically correct English, but ...

Ebonics detractors often characterize the speech ... to assist with wiretaps and linguistic profiling, when a person's accent or dialect can help lead investigators to the criminal.

A trial Ebonics is already in place in two San Bernardino schools. Now, look, the point is—you know—you can mimic of all sorts of dialects, accents, Spanish and French, but you wouldn't mimic ...

Others confused Ebonics with "jive ... were criticized for what some viewed as nefarious use of a black accent or the cynical unleashing of a "hidden" black accent when among other African ...

An emerging field of research suggests that much like Cajun English or African American Vernacular English—otherwise known as Ebonics—unique speech patterns ... or “the rez accent.” Indigenous people ...

"or like this," and suddenly his words were spiced with a Latino accent. He explained that another form of discrimination is the stereotypical assumption that ebonics is simply "broken-down" English ...

But Ebonics isn't linguistic Kwanzaa ... yet-to-hit puberty kid coming in with a New York accent you're just a target. So I tried to, you know, I remember coming home and trying to drops my ...

Mainstream media construed the actions of the Oakland School Board as an attempt to gain bilingual funding and treated Ebonics merely as an accent. The New York Times, even, referred to Ebonics as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The perception of an accent is more about the attitudes of the listener than the speaker, the resolution said. The same could be said about the uproar over Ebonics; it's more about the attitudes ...