"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

The deaf community was plagued by racial segregation, so Black Americans decided to create their own rendition of the language to serve their communities. “Sinners” premiered on MAX on July 4 in its ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a streaming platform that will also ...

Texas native, interpreter behind Black American Sign Language for ‘Sinners’ movie streaming on Max (Olivia Beer (HBO) , Copyright 2025 by Warner Bros. Discovery ...

Ryan Coogler is marking another career milestone: The director’s latest blockbuster “Sinners” will be the first film to ever stream in Black American Sign Language (BASL). Warner Bros. Pictures’ ...

The film in its original form will also premiere on July 4. By Tony Maglio Max will debut Sinners in the U.S. on Friday, July 4, when viewers will be able to watch it two ways: by 1) streaming the ...

This year’s breakout horror film “Sinners” is now on HBO’s Max with a Black American Sign Language (BASL) interpretation for deaf subscribers. “The release of ‘Sinners’ with BASL is a major step ...

Ryan Coogler's Sinners was released in April to critical acclaim. Since then, the movie has managed to break several box office records and accomplish a list of "firsts," making history for Black ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

Adding to the long list of history-making moves from Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” the record-breaking film will become the first movie to ever debut using Black American Sign Language (BASL). The ...