Essays concerning African-Americans and their Language Use

Academic Ingnorance and Black Intelligence
This is an excellent article written in 1972 and includes a trascript of Black English conversation

The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English

Confronting Dialect Minority Issues in Special Education

On Linguistic Universals
Black English Vernacular is discussed five paragraphs from the bottom

They're Taking Over! - Myths about Multiculturalism

Nigger AIN'T Just a Word......
A dissenting opinion of the use of the "N-word" by African-Americans

A Sociolinguistic Interview
My interview of an AAVE speaker