When David Player ’19 (sociology/anthropology) was a student at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in 2015, he became fascinated with how race, identity, and language, specifically sign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

Carolyn McCaskill, a Gallaudet University professor and founding director of its new Center for Black Deaf Studies, has devoted her career to shining a light on Black American Sign Language (Black ASL ...

On Super Bowl Sunday, more than one winner walked away from the anticipated match-up. Within the Fenty frenzy, social media could not stop raving about Justina Miles, the energetic sign language ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a streaming platform that will also ...

Sign language interpreter Valerie McMillan stole the show at the 56th National Delta Sigma Theta Convention in Indianapolis on July 22. A video shared to Instagram by fellow Delta Sigma Theta soror, ...

WASHINGTON – It’s a chilly December day on the campus of Gallaudet University and JC Smith – a Black deaf man and undergraduate student – is hanging out inside the new Center for Black Deaf Studies.

Kanny Salike ’26 (CLAS) didn’t grow up in the Deaf community and no one around her uses American Sign Language – she didn’t even know her A, B, Cs until just over a year ago. The linguistics and ...

Ryan Coogler's Sinners was released in April to critical acclaim. Since then, the movie has managed to break several box office records and accomplish a list of "firsts," making history for Black ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

Max announces first BASL offering for a feature film with 'Sinners' streaming release. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures The summer vampire blockbuster Sinners is finally coming to streaming this week, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – It's a chilly December day on the campus of Gallaudet University and JC Smith – a Black deaf man and undergraduate ...