DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 16, 2015
-- a piece of Deaf Culture that many forgot
(picture)
How many people remember the Negro Schools
for the Deaf? These schools closed up.
The most visible student from these schools
was a 6'8 student, who played basketball -
Leon Grant. After graduating from North
Carolina School for Negro Deaf, he played
at North Carolina Central University before
dominating the competition at national
deaf tournaments. The frenzy over him started
when the Deaf American magazine featured him
on a front page cover. Anyway there was a
story today in a newspaper about one such
school. The picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/schools-for-deaf-segregated-blacks/
-- big protest in Canada
Deaf people in Ontario are protesting the appointment
of a hearing person to serve as superintendent at
Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf instead of hiring
the deaf. They are saying she knows nothing about ASL
and of Deaf Culture. A source told DeafDigest that
this new superintendet is fluent in ASL and has over
25 years of experience working with the deaf and was
much more qualified than the deaf candidate. Then
why the protest? Two reasons - a hearing person was
chosen over the deaf; the community, parents, and alumni
were kept out of the search and interview process!
-- invited to the White House
President Obama has invited the Deaf West's entire cast
of Spring Awakening performers to give a performance
at the White House on November 18th. You can see it
on the White House web site that day.
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