CINCINNATI (WKRC) – A dream came true for a die-hard Cincinnati Bengals fan who is deaf. She’s traveled to home Bengals games, and is now heading to the Super Bowl.
Over the years, Meg Burkhard has become an advocate for other deaf and hard-of-hearing fans. Through all the winning and even the losing seasons, Burkhard has been one of the most animated football fans out there.
Franklin Jones, Jr., is in a race against time.
Jones, a lecturer in Deaf studies at BU Wheelock, researches Black American Sign Language (BASL). He’s interested in its historical roots, linguistic intricacies, and cultural significance. But with each year that goes by since Black and white schools integrated, there are fewer and fewer people who know BASL, let alone use it to converse.
“It’s really critical to interview and take the opportunity to look at the experiences and history of the Black folks that are left, because many of them are dying,” Jones says. “So can we pull together those last bits of information that are still in our history from these senior members of our community, and ask about different sign production and what that looks like, before it’s too late?”
Celine Dion fans are getting twenty new original videos celebrating her work today (September 23).
For the United Nations’ International Day of Sign Language, the team behind Dion’s 2024 documentary I Am: Celine Dion has released new videos on YouTube that feature American Sign Language (ASL) interpretations of the film’s soundtrack.
ASL performing artist Angela “AV” Vilavong interprets Redi Hasa’s original score for the film, as well as the popular songs of Dion herself, bringing a whole new dimension to hits like “My Heart Will Go On” and “River Deep, Mountain High.” Vilavong’s interpretations also include LSQ, the sign language used by members of Canadian Francophone communities.
Read on at https://ca.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/celine-dion-sign-language-asl.
Music videos with some ASL videos included – https://www.youtube.com/@CelineDion/videos.
