Hearing the Voices of Deaf Culture at the 1981 Folklife Festival
The landmark event introduced many hearing visitors to the stories, poems, sign play, jokes and traditions of the deaf community
Coming of Age in Poetry: An Interview with Elexia Alleyne
Growing up in D.C.’s barrio, Elexia remembers a vibrant, tight-knit Dominican community.
The Chinese Poetry Left at Angel Island, the “Ellis Island of the West”
Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim. Its primary mission was to better enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other anti-Asian laws enacted in subsequent years.