The Department of Justics has revived debate over Ebonics with DEA job offer. Aug. 23 ,2010— -- The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for fluent Ebonics speakers to fill nine drug enforcement ...

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 ...

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 said Thursday that it does not recognize Ebonics as a formal language, but it still may need translators for agents to understand drug dealers who speak it. The DEA ...

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

In what sounds like the setup for a comedy sketch, the Justice Department is seeking experts in "ebonics," or black English. According to The Smoking Gun, a Drug Enforcement Administration office in ...

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The US is seeking to hire nine people fluent in Ebonics - or African American patois - in order to interpret wiretapped conversations between suspected drug dealers, sparking controversy as many do ...

Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations. The Drug Enforcement Agency recently sent memos ...

ATLANTA (CBS/AP) The Drug Enforcement Administration is looking to hire nine Ebonics translators in order to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for fluent Ebonics speakers to fill nine drug enforcement jobs, giving merit to a dialect that experts say is often mimicked and little understood.The Federal ...