LAWRENCE — Kim Bates woke up Nov. 12 with sore shoulders and a sore back. Her biceps were in pain even before she’d gone to bed.
The previous evening she spent two and a half hours on her feet at the front of a hot, packed auditorium where Kansas University held a town hall forum on race. One after another, KU students, faculty and staffers unleashed.
Bates was the one translating it all into American Sign Language.