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Don't Ignore the Black and Deaf: Why Police Violence Is a Huge Danger and Other Ways the Community Is Marginalized
Deaf Americans are often left out of conversations about equality and justice. Police brutality, incarceration and other forms of systemic racism are issues that can manifest in even more harmful ways for folks who are both Black and deaf. “When you arrest them, you take their hands and take their mode of communication away from…
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Say What? Police Don’t Know Who Invited This Terrible ASL Interpreter to Their News Conference
Tampa Bay, Fla., police are still trying to figure out how an American Sign Language interpreter they didn’t even invite managed to derail a press conference about a suspected serial killer in Florida last week. The interpreter, identified by the police as Derlyn Roberts, delivered a completely incoherent translation that left deaf and hearing-impaired Florida…