Dave Sheinin, The Washington Post, July 19, 2021 This deaf-blind Paralympian was told to navigate Tokyo alone. So she quit Team USA. “This has been very difficult for me,” Becca Meyers said of giving up on the Tokyo Paralympics. But “I need to say something to effect change, because this can’t go on any longer.”…
CBC News, British Columbia, July 18, 2021 The Sm’algyax braille alphabet created by Harris Mowbray is now available to the public online as a series of illustrations that correspond to characters conventionally used to write Sm’algyax, the traditional language of the Ts’msyen people in northern B.C. Harris Mowbray has never been to Prince Rupert, B.C.,…
Mark A. Riccobono, President, National Federation of the Blind, July 2021 Tonight, we, as blind people organized in a civil rights movement, come to our own moment of reflection. We cannot remove ourselves from the nation in which we live. We cannot deny the influence of the pressures, perspectives, barriers, and inequities of that nation,…
