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BALTIMORE, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the United States, today announced that it has partnered with Vehicles for Charity to launch a new vehicle donation program. The NFB's vehicle donation program accepts almost any vehicle, including cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles and recreational vehicles. All donations may be eligible for a tax donation on your federal income tax...
Dr. Douglas Koch, professor of ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the 63rd recipient of the Leslie Dana Gold Medal, an internationally recognized award given annually by St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Koch, the Allen, Mosbacher and Law Chair of Ophthalmology at BCM, will be presented with the award at a special ceremony April 13 in St. Louis. Commendable service St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired has been awarding...
$25,000 Award to Recipient AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The LBJ Foundation, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs have asked for nominations for the Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award, established by the LBJ Foundation Board of Trustees to underscore the lasting devotion of the former First Lady to conservation and the environment. The award honors outstanding achievements in the preservation, restoration or...
Urges Senate to Act Swiftly on Inclusion of Disabled Veterans in Space Available Program BALTIMORE, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind, the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind people in the United States, today applauded the introduction of S. 346 by Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV). If passed, the bill will reverse the exclusion of 100 percent service-disabled veterans from the military's Space...
BALTIMORE, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind, the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind Americans, commented today on the State of the Union address delivered by President Obama yesterday evening, focusing particularly on the president's call for a raise in the federal minimum wage. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120815/MM57966LOGO) Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said in part:...
Beloved children's book character likely lost sight from viral meningoencephalitis, research highlights how tales of disease influence perception of disease ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the beloved American stories of the Little House on the Prairie, author Laura Ingalls Wilder writes emotionally about how scarlet fever robs her big sister Mary of her sight. But in a new study published today in the journal Pediatrics, University of Michigan...
BALTIMORE, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind, the largest organization of blind people in the United States with over 50,000 members, including many deaf-blind individuals, commented today on the state-sanctioned death by lethal injection of deaf twins in Belgium. Upon learning that they were also going blind, the deaf twins sought and were granted euthanasia. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120815/MM57966LOGO) Dr. Marc...
Former Director of the LBJ Presidential Library delivers illuminating biography of Lady Bird Johnson NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It's been five years since Lady Bird Johnson's death and this Saturday, December 22(nd), would have been her 100(th) birthday. Michael Gillette, the former director of the LBJ Presidential Library's Oral History program, conducted more than forty interviews with Lady Bird spanning 20 years, covering the complete personal story of a...
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind applauds today's announcement from the United States government supporting a legally binding international instrument which will allow many more books to be converted into accessible formats used by the blind and allow those accessible copies to be shared across international borders. The U.S. officially voiced its support earlier today at the Extraordinary General Assembly of the World...
Blind Americans Will Protest at Amazon Headquarters SEATTLE, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In protest of a recent push by Amazon.com to put Kindle e-books, which are inaccessible to blind students, into K-12 classrooms across the country, members and supporters of the National Federation of the Blind will conduct an informational picket at the company's headquarters on Wednesday, December 12. The action comes on the heels of Amazon's launch of Whispercast, a system designed...
