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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THERE'S a predictable kerfuffle over the news that America's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking for people to translate wiretaps into English from, among other languages, Ebonics. 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 ...

At NPR’s news blog, Frank James snarks on the DEA’s request for linguists who specialize in Ebonics: Some stories make you doublecheck the date just to make sure it’s not April Fools Day. Such is an ...