Black Deaf Resources

The resources below are a collection of websites, videos, books, readings, and other learning material that I have found to be helpful overtime and use in my Black Deaf Communities course. This list is constantly growing and is a compilation of resources that have been shared with me over social media, I have found on YouTube or have been created by the Black Deaf community or disability support organizations. If you use these resources please give credit to the individual(s) or organization that labored to put the material together. This information can be found within each link. Please use these resources as a starting point to incorporate Black Deaf life, experiences, and history into your courses and/or to expand your understanding and knowledge about the diversity, needs, history and complexities of Black community life.

Art

RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center- List of Black Deaf Artists

Black Deaf History – Joseph Sarpy (Actor)

Education

“From White Deaf People’s Adversity to Black Deaf Gain”: A Proposal for a New Lens of Black Deaf Educational History By Dr. Rezenet Tsegay Moges

Black Deaf Ph.D Project

The Powerful History Story about Deaf Black & White Students Separated

Black, Disabled, and Proud: College Students with Disabilities

History of the Maryland School for the Colored Deaf and Blind

Black Deaf History- Southern School for the Deaf

International Black Deaf Perspectives & Resources

Deaf and Destined to Bridge the World | Isidore Niyongabo | TEDxSDSU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLje7b52sfs

Dr. Andrew Foster, Ghana and the Roots of Deaf Education in Africa

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1537s&v=nHHr6DYxRy0

Documentary Deaf Rolemodels in Kenya, Africa

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBA7rIdPZ8

Organizations

National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA)

https://www.nbda.org

Born Too Soon? Willard Shorter (Founder of NBDA)

http://library.rit.edu/exhibits/deafhistory/shorter.htm

Helping to Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities

https://behearddc.org/

International Deaf Education and Leadership (IDEAL)

http://realideal.org/

Give Back To Community- Zambia (GBCZ)

https://www.gbczambia.org/?fbclid=IwAR1zk4M0LLekfgox4XNlwtL7bqZAaut5wWf4El_zwKqvJyg9YrIdi0V1qB4

Sports

Silent Dreams

Since childhood it was this Deaf basketball player's "Silent Dream" to play with hearing players on a professional basketball team. In 2004 Osei Morris was the first Deaf African American to play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the "LA-Stars." Osei narrates his once in a lifetime experience. This mini-doc was shot by a deaf female filmmaker and edited by a student editor; it is voiced and captioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=LVkfaZdv6uw&fbclid=IwAR10wlFhUVaQKJf_so8tfrmFK9Y1XOOyeCllIoH62cCM-LKuZim6UzNTXsY

Black Deaf Collective Information

Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of Black Deaf History

By Benro Ogunyipe, Former NBDA President 2011-2013

https://dcmp.org/learn/366-black-deaf-culture-through-the-lens-of-black-deaf-history

ASUW Student Disability Commission

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mogaPT5QYdElwJ1hvWxyNCL97R32z9FsRYs8qfbWpBE/mobilebasic

Black Deaf Center

www.blackdeafcenter.com

Center for Black Deaf Studies- Gallaudet University

https://gallyshare.com/center-for-black-deaf-studies/

Black American Sign Language