Where did Ebonics come from?

It’s my understanding without doing any research that it derives from African-American street language which would explain why it’s an exclusively American dialect. You don’t really hear much about it lately.

Dr. Robert L. Williams in 1973 coined the term is a combination of the words “ebony” and “phonics” and is used to describe the language of African-Americans

Apparently, large segments of the African-American community were speaking English with similar accents, pronunciations, and vocabularies.

I know where the term came from @Forever_Free!

GA @RocketGuy. But for it to ripple through the entire American African American population is so interesting to me.