DiMarco is headed to big DC event

Nyle DiMarco (image from ABC)

People Magazine will have Nyle DiMarco as one of it’s guests at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Find out who the Dancing with the Stars contestant is bringing with him in an Washington Post article here. There's also been talk of a feud between DiMarco and another dancer on DWTS, which you can read about at Radar Online here
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Arrested for Obscene Sign

A Rhode Island man who attends Gallaudet University is suing the Woonsocket Police Department. David Alves was arrested for a misinterpreted sign language gesture--and held overnight. The police department refused his request for an interpreter. WJAR-TV has a video report.

Nyle DiMarco: Why I travel

Dancing With the Stars' Nyle DiMarco backpacked solo around Europe as well as North and South America for a year. He sat down with Conde Nast Traveler last week to talk about his experiences, the same day he scored the first perfect ten of the season on DWTS.

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Deaf women ritualistically beaten & killed

The bodies of three women in Haiti were found in a ditch after they were "beaten, stabbed and burned. The relatives who identified "them in a morgue said their tongues were cut out" raising speculation they were targeted because they were deaf and seen using sign language. Read the full story from Associated Press here.

When Prince Played at Gally

In 1984 Prince played a free, unannounced concert at Gallaudet University's field house. Alum Stephen Hlibok talked to WUSA-TV about a night he'll never forgot.


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Deaf Lawyers welcomed into Supreme Court Bar

Chief Justice John Roberts 

There's a formal ceremony admitting attorneys to the Supreme Court Bar. And for the first time spoken English was not the language used by Chief
when administering the oath to new lawyers. Yesterday, ASL was used. Read the story in the Wall Street Journal here.

Film about Deaf Teens

Dreaming of Peggy Lee is a short film about two deaf teenagers who sneak away from their home to sneak into jazz club in London during the 1940s. It was premiered this week at the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth in Vancouver on April 14. Read more about the film festival here. Below is a trailer for the film.

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10 things to know about Nyle DiMarco

Staten Island live has come up with a listicle about deaf reality start Nyle DiMarco. Like #7, why he's good with numbers (hint: it's what he studied at Gallaudet Univerisity). Read the full list here. The video below is a sample of DiMarco on Dancing with the Stars.

Cali School gets new leader

The California School for the Deaf at Riverside has a new superintendent. Nancy Hlibok Amann will take the role this summer. Amann has worked at Deaf Community Services of San Diego and served as assistant superintendent of the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Read the press release about the appointment from the California Dept. of Education here. Parents of a student at the school filed a lawsuit in 2015, accusing administrators of allowing a sex club to exist on campus. The school denied that accusation. Read more about the suit here.

Florida gets new deaf ed advanced degree program

A Florida college is going to offer a master's degree in deaf education. Here's a video report about the new program at Flagler College from WJAX‑TV in Jacksonville.

Suit: Prison refuses to replace hearing aids

The ACLU is suing Ohio's corrections department for not replacing a deaf inmate's hearing aids. James Handwork was given the hearing aids more than decade ago and the prison audiologist says they are wore out and obsolete. Read the lawsuit details here.

Deaf School Suddenly Closed

A UK school for the deaf was suddenly shut down because the residents were being abused. The Care Quality Commission said some of the residents were pushed, hit and mistreated at Margate’s Westgate college in Kent. There were also financial problems at the facility. The local MP KentOnline, " “These allegations are simply horrifying. Residents were abused by the people they trusted the most. It was wrong and without excuse." Read the details here.

DiMarco-Dancing part 3

Nyle DiMarco says on his third Vlog, "The judges' feedback (on Dancing with the Stars) was kind of negative.. Some of the feedback was that I lacked musicality, which is difficult because, obviously, I'm deaf."

The deaf women in Obama's White House

Meet the two deaf women who have risen to prominent positions alongside Barack Obama in the White House--and they aren't the only deaf people working in the White House. Read the story from the BBC here.

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College Professor teaching students "what discrimination looks like"

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of Houston website

Professor Terrell Brittain teaches ASL and Deaf culture at the University of Houston. He tells the school's student newspaper, “If we can have students and other people able to sign a little bit that would be really great. What I’d like to see is a completely ASL-friendly environment where languages aren’t discriminated against so that UH becomes a model as a deaf-friendly university.” Read the full story about professor Brittain here.