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 ...

"Critical race theory" has become the demonized catchall phrase in the spirited national discourse about education and systemic racism. Supreme Court justices, politicians, parents and teachers have ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Posted on the wall of Carrie Secret’s classroom, handwritten cards in careful cursive strokes list the primary language of her black fifth-graders as “Ebonics.” Over in a corner ...

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 ...

The U.S. government's recent call for Ebonics translators to serve a drug-enforcement region that includes South Florida renews a decades-old debate: What exactly is Ebonics, and should law ...