(CNN)-- 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 ...

Some are questioning whether "Ebonics" is a misnomer. They say the DEA is really after the key to understanding the particular, but unstructured, way that certain criminals talk to each other. "It ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.

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 against ...

Such is an Associated Press report that the Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking speakers of Ebonics who can do translation work for its agents in the Southeast. The AP reported: ATLANTA (AP ...

The Department of Justics has revived debate over Ebonics with DEA job offer. Aug. 23 ,2010— -- The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for fluent Ebonics speakers to fill nine drug ...

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 widespread debate concerning whether Ebonics should be allowed in schools has overcome this country. We should rejoice over this “newfound” language because it is a measuring stick for how ...

The culprit of the confusion was an article headlined “Ebonics suggested for district.” The headline certainly grabs, especially given that this is coming from the state where nearly ten years ago the ...

PEOPLE seemed pretty clear on the latest California controversy in which the Oakland school board accepted “Ebonics” as a black “language” that should be taught to English teachers.

It is the ignorance of Ebonics instead of the language itself that has built an immense education barrier, Geneva Smitherman told a crowd of about 500 people Saturday at the Minneapolis Convention ...

(CNN)-- 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 ...