Dialect in 1990s news

• Language in which "yo" is a pronoun
• Controversial talk
• Subject of a 1990s language controversy
• A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people
• Controversial school language subject
• Linguistics term coined in 1973, and made controversial in 1996
• To linguists, it's African American Vernacular English

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"African-American vernacular English," 1975, as title of a book by U.S. professor R.L. Williams (b.1930); a blend of ebony and phonics .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ebonics (a blend of the words ebony and phonics ) is a term that was originally intended to refer to the language of all people descended from enslaved Black Africans , particularly in West Africa , the Caribbean , and North America . Since the 1996 controversy ...