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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Last year's media uproar over Ebonics missed the point. What's really important is not what kind of language Ebonics isn't, but what kind it is. To James Baldwin, writing in 1979, it was this passion, ...