The history behind Black ASL

Black ASL is more than language. It’s history, culture, and identity. We’re excited to celebrate Franklin Jones Jr., a lecturer at Boston University, who recently published a new book to raise awareness of Black ASL. Black ASL emerged during segregation, when Black and white deaf students were separated, sometimes in different buildings, sometimes on entirely different campuses. Within those spaces, the Black Deaf community built and nurtured a language variety shaped by shared experiences, cult

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