black Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/black/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png black Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/black/ 32 32 “Mother of Music in ASL” Passed Away-Remembering Shirley Childress https://deafniche.com/mother-music-asl-passed-away-remembering-shirley-childress/ https://deafniche.com/mother-music-asl-passed-away-remembering-shirley-childress/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:25:09 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9981 March 6, 2017-Shirley Childress passed away at the age of 69. Childress is best known for being the first black certified ASL interpreter and as one of the members in the band Sweet Honey in The Rock. Over the course of her career, she interpreted for famous people such as Maya Angelou (writer of I Know […]

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