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Sign language interpreter Justina Miles was highly-celebrated for her presence at this year's Super Bowl. Her contributions as a Black sign language interpreter highlight the history of the Black ASL.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The version will launch on Max July 4. Ryan Coogler is marking another career milestone: The director’s latest blockbuster “Sinners” will be the first film to ever stream in Black American Sign ...

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 ...