14 Black Women to Celebrate During Black History Month
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Black History Month is a glorious celebration of the infinite ways that Black people have influenced global culture for centuries. Our innovative and diverse cuisines, music, fashion, hairstyles, art, entertainment, and colloquialisms are often appropriated and imitated by people who value our culture more than our actual lives. But, they can and will never be able to duplicate it.
We are the progenitors of trends and lasting precedents, the barrier breakers, the peacemakers, and when we need to be, the hell raisers to make things happen. The literal chains of Black American’s ancestors begat the enduring weight of systemic racism, prejudice, and oppression on their descendants, yet we continue to rise and thrive as a phenomenal collective. This goes double for Black women; we have to navigate a patriarchal and misogynistic world and are undoubtedly the foundation of Black life and culture. Our contribut
Black, Deaf and Extremely Online
On TikTok and in virtual hangouts, a younger generation is sharing the origins and nuances of Black American Sign Language, a rich variation of ASL that scholars say has been overlooked for too long.
Nakia Smith’s popular TikTok videos celebrate the history of Black American Sign Language and delight in its divergences from standard American Sign Language.Credit.JerSean Golatt for The New York Times
Published Jan. 23, 2021Updated March 25, 2021
“I have to make sure my hands are not ashy before I sign,” Nakia Smith, who is deaf, explained to her nearly 400,000 followers.
In one of the dozens of popular videos she posted to TikTok last year, Ms. Smith compared her habit of adding a quick dab of lotion to her hands before she starts signing to the sip of water a hearing person takes before beginning to speak.
UpdatedFri, Jan 1, 2021 at 12:54 am CT
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