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When discussing racial tensions, experiences, and events — Indigenous Americans, also known as Native Americans, are often ignored and overlooked. In this webinar, part of the Real Talk, Good Action series presented by the Dismantling Racism Committee, we invite you to meet some Deaf Indigenous folks in our community. Come and learn about their experiences, tribes, how they navigate in the Deaf community and their Indigenous community, and the oppression they face. Learn about their issues and why we need to pay attention to these issues.

Registration for zoom link required, go to https://www.nad.org/webinar-indigenous-deaf-community/.

Recording will be made public after event.

In conjunction with The International Week of the Deaf, McDonald’s Finland collaborates with the well-known rapper Signmark to translate the restaurant chain’s iconic jingle into a sign language based song. Signmark and McDonald’s hope that the song will help to shed light on the prejudices people with hearing impairments face daily. Agency NORD DDB is behind the initiative.

McDonald’s latest campaign contributes to increased awareness about deafness with its first of a kind sign language jingle called Something bigger (I’m lovin’ it). The song is a part of McDonald’s Togetherness platform which aims to promote equality and inclusivity.

Read the rest at https://www.lbbonline.com/news/mcdonalds-collaborates-with-the-worlds-first-sign-language-rap-artist-to-promote-inclusivity-and-understanding.

 

Boxing helped Andrea Moore overcome a lot of obstacles in her life — and that’s why she loves the sweet science.

The 29-year-old fighter, who resides in Rossville, was born deaf and was bullied growing up.

She turned to boxing at the age of 14 as a way to channel her anger from constantly being picked on.

“I had anger problems and my parents saw me hold my own whenever I played rough with the boys so they heard about this gym and brought me there,” explained Moore. “It instantly lit up a soul I didn’t know I had. Letting it all out by hitting the bag.

Read the rest at https://www.silive.com/recsports/2022/09/deaf-island-boxer-competes-in-first-and-last-bout-ahead-of-operation-that-will-give-her-the-ability-to-hear.html.