Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) National President Thomas A. Zampieri, Ph.D. will form part of a six-member panel of Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) on Wednesday, March 3, as he summarizes the Association’s priorities for the first session of the 117th Congress. The scheduled 10:00am EST beginning of the hearing, which will be conducted virtually by the House and Senate Committees on Veterans Affairs, will first feature oral testimony from the Disabled American Veterans followed by the […]

The United States Access Board will host, during the months of March and April, a four-part series of virtual meetings on making Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) accessible to passengers with disabilities.   The meetings will provide an open forum and encourage public dialogue through which stakeholders and interested citizens can discuss considerations, challenges, and solutions in the design of accessible, self-driving vehicles.   Two 90-minute sessions scheduled for March 10 and 24 will address access for […]

Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2021Time: 8:00pmLink: https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress Stellar jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker has been blind since birth and playing music since his grandfatherbought him a small keyboard at age three. At 10, he performed for Stevie Wonder’s induction intothe Apollo Theater Hall of Fame. Now, at age 19, Whitaker has been featured on stages around theworld, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Lincoln Center. A patron of the National Library Service for the […]

The Library of Congress, founded in 1800, is the oldest federal cultural institution in the nation. It is the country’s first established cultural institution and the largest library in the world, with more than 170 million items on approximately 840 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 38 million books and other print materials, 3.6 million recordings, 14 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 7.1 million pieces of sheet music and 70 million manuscripts. The […]