Essay on Ebonics, "Talking the Talk" by Lynn Schnaiberg

"The Ebonics Controversy in my Backyard: A Sociolinguists' Experiences and Reflections, " by John R. Rickford

William Labov's testimony about Ebonics

Resolution on the Oakland Ebonics issue Unanimously adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 1997

Spike Lee's views on Ebonics

Center for Applied Linguistics Ebonics Information Page

World Wide Words view on Ebonics

Oakland School Board Ebonics Resolution

Resolution On The Oakland "Ebonics" Issue Unanimously Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

Center for Studies in Language and Education - An overview of the events surrounding the Oakland Ebonics resolution

CAL statement to the media on Ebonics

Dialect Education: Not Only for Oakland, by Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics

Policy Statement of the TESOL Board on African American Vernacular English (March 10, 1997)

Ebonics and Linguistic Science: Clarifying the Issues, by Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

Ebonics Webquest - designed by a group of African American parents and the local chapter of the NAACP

The Ebonics Controversy (John Baugh's website)