Ebonics is the story that won’t go away, no matter how much I wish it would. The Oakland School Board adopted a resolution during the Christmas holidays that called for teachers and African-A… ...

The Ebonics debate has taken an alarming new twist. Thursday, school officials from Oakland, Calif., went before a U.S. Senate subcommittee to again state their case that the only way to get the po… ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s been more than three weeks now since the Oakland Board of Education took the action that unnerved the nation. Weeks of outraged reaction and recrimination, weeks … ...

It's a lot like the Ebonics "up": In a way, you slide that videocassette all "up" into the box. The "intimate up" is one of several ways that Black English is complicated, and in a way that even ...

ATLANTA — Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations. The Drug Enforcement ...

Ebonics experts might not be what the DEA needs: Federal drug agents probably do have a hard time understanding black English, says Boyce Watkins at AOL's Black Voices. But even those well-versed ...

Ebonics may become part of the curriculum in a California school district in efforts to boost test scores among African American students. On Monday’s “Outsider” segment, Max Kellerman, ESPN ...