Tag: Journalism
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Audio Description Podcast on Current Events and News Gives Me Visual Perspective
I am sitting on my sofa watching the 6 p.m. evening news. The reporter stops the broadcast for a news break about a bombing, police shooting, natural disaster or terroristic attack. The reporter gives all the relative information, i.e. the when, what and why. But the scene is all visual and I can only speculate…
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Working and Writing in the Disability Nonprofit World
If someone told me in college while pursuing a journalism degree that 6 months after graduation, I would be visually impaired and later have a career in the disability nonprofit world I would have said they were ridiculous. But that is exactly what happened! During that time, I was laser focused and incredibly ambitious; obtaining…
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Four Reasons I’m Thankful for the ADA
July 26th will mark the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It was in 1990 when I was a freshman in college that Former President George H. W. Bush signed this powerful piece of civil rights legislation into law. On that day, with disability advocates and policy makers present, the door was…
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Working from Home Has Been My New Normal
In the last few months many people have had to transition from working in an office to working from home because of the pandemic. Folks have had to make major adjustments to home and work life. They Have had to share space with family, increase WIFI bandwidth, find ways to stay active and deal with…
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My Blindness Doesn’t Determine My Happiness
Ever since I lost my vision in the late 1990s to Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) syndrome, which is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic, bilateral uveitis, I made a decision that I would strive to live a happy life. I was determined that my blindness would not control me and I would figure out how to live…
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Blind Tom a Georgia Slave Never Emancipated
This month is Black History Month. To start things off I am posting a story that I previously published at the Center for the Visually Impaired and VisionAware. Later in the month I will share about another interesting blind African American. So stay tuned! Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Washington Carver, Rosa…
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My Reflections on Life After Deaf
I was intrigued when I read the announcement at the DeKalb County Library for the reading and discussion on the book Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery by Noel Holston. I am not deaf but do have a sensory disability and because of people’s lack of understanding sometimes get lumped into…
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Ten Ways I Use Braille Everyday
Happy New Year everybody! I am kicking off the year on the Triple E Blog with a post about braille and how I use it every day. January is the month that those of us in the blind and visually impaired community observe Braille Literacy Month. Braille is a code created for reading and writing.…
Empish J. Thomas 