Sentence:  Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a <WSD>Black</WSD> scholar in 1975 [sic] but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from "ebony" (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and "phonics" (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (black) (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin)