ASL

Ida Siegal reports.

On a soundstage in Brooklyn, Jeremy Lee Stone pulls you in with a sample of his American Sign Language (ASL) slam poetry. “To state it as simply as possible, ASL is art,” Stone told NBC New York. The Harlem native, who was born deaf, has been spreading that message for years as an ASL teacher and founder of ASL Elements,…

‘The Sound of Metal’ is up for Best Picture at the Oscars – but it probably wouldn’t have been possible with one Brooklyn American Sign Language teacher. Gilma Avalos talks to him.

As stars Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan belted the National Anthem into their mics at Super Bowl LV, a trailblazing artist hailing from the DMV area and graduate of Gallaudet University in D.C. communicated the emotion, lyrics and rhythm to Deaf viewers across America.

They’re used to explaining speeches and press conferences, but American Sign Language interpreters are saying the coronavirus pandemic has presented the most difficult and inspiring assignment of their careers. “This is something that is literally life or death,” said Rorri Burton, one of the interpreters contracted by Green Translations who have been delivering Los Angeles County’s coronavirus updates to...