Ebonics is a cry for help in this country. America needs to listen and solve the greater problem at hand. Originally Published: January 12, 1997 at 1:00 AM CST ...

The term "Ebonics" -- a blend of "ebony" and "phonics" -- became known in 1996, when the Oakland, California, Unified School District proposed using it in teaching English.

Some stories make you doublecheck the date just to make sure it's not April Fools Day. Such is an Associated Press report that the Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking speakers of Ebonics ...

Mike Royko’s columns on Ebonics (Jan. 8 and 9) showed little effort to understand the Oakland School Board’s decision on African-American English (or Ebonics). The school board was not … ...

It wouldn’t hurt to let Ebonics-speaking students know that Ebonics isn’t bad and that Standard English isn’t better, and that they should be used in different contexts.

Though connotations of Ebonics in popular culture are negative, in linguistics, those connotations are emphatically positive, citing these speech varieties’ internal logic and rich history.

That 1996 decision opened up a floodgate of debates and debacles over the place of Ebonics in the classroom. If San Bernadino was now following Oakland’s lead with its own integration of Ebonics into ...

ATLANTA — The feds are looking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of drug dealers, according to federal records… ...

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 ...

Ebonics interpreters are needed to help interpret wiretapped drug suspects, according to a memo sent by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Talks are underway to possibly include Ebonics as a part of the curriculum in a California school district as a way to boost test scores among African-American students, reports MSNBC.com. African ...

The term "Ebonics" -- a blend of "ebony" and "phonics" -- became known in 1996, when the Oakland, California, Unified School District proposed using it in teaching English.