One of the hardest things for a black linguist is getting across, once and for all, something that the public never quite seems to get: Black English is not bad English. Over the years, people have ...

Ill-prepared at first to address the language differences, the African-American teacher attended regular evening, weekend, and summer workshops in which she worked with linguistic experts, education ...

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 ...

YORK HARBOR — The Issues Forum of St. George's Episcopal Church kicked off its spring semester series last Sunday with a talk on Ebonics by University of New Hampshire associate professor of ...

In Oakland, they are involved in a modern remake of the Pygmalion story. A school board faced with the failure of too many African-American students has decreed slang to be a valid and different ...