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The Coffee Shop Where the Whole Staff Speaks With Their Hands
Starbucks' first U.S. Signing Store, opened near Gallaudet University in 2018, made American Sign Language the working language of a business — and a neighborhood meeting place.
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Stories publishes first-person essays and extended profiles: accounts of identity, family, work, migration and change, written by the people who lived them or reported with their full participation. Subjects review quotes before publication. Intended for readers who prefer one specific account over a summary of many.
Personal essays and long profiles published with the writer's consent at every stage, covering identity, family, work and turning points.
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The Refugee Team That Played Its Way Into the League
Oxford Phoenix FC, a football club made entirely of refugees and asylum seekers, went from informal kickabouts in 2021 to a place in the English football pyramid.
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A Cincinnati Barber Made Haircuts Possible for Kids the Chair Rejected
Vernon Jackson's monthly Gifted Event gives autistic children free sensory-friendly haircuts — one child at a time, for as long as it takes.
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The Boston Neighborhood That Voted to Own Its Land Together
In Roxbury and Dorchester, residents of the Dudley Street area won the power of eminent domain over their own blocks — and kept the land in community hands for four decades.
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The Orchestra That Retuned Itself So Everyone Could Play
In Switzerland, the inclusive ensemble Tabula Musica joined forces with Lucerne Festival musicians and a disability theater company to build a stage where no body is the wrong instrument.
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Deaf West Theatre Staged a Revolution in Two Languages at Once
Since 1991, the Los Angeles company Deaf West Theatre has put deaf and hearing actors on the same stage, in the same scenes, in ASL and English simultaneously.