Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ConsiderThis I spend a lot of my time talking about the state of disability representation in media. It’s never been a good time ...

I put off watching the new Netflix documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. As a disability rights colleague commented on my Facebook page, “Sometimes, when a film is loudly touted as ‘it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James LeBrecht is clearly not a big fan of President Donald Trump. But that will not stop LeBrecht, who was born with spina bifida ...

An award-winning documentary produced by former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama centering on the origins of the disability rights movement is making its debut. “Crip Camp: A ...

Oh, how I wish I had gone to Camp Jened. Although I had never heard of the place six months ago, after watching the remarkable documentary ‘Crip Camp’ on Netflix I discovered a summer camp where ...

Can a summer camp change the world? If you’re talking Camp Jened in upstate New York, a place that welcomed kids with disabilities for a generation, the answer is yes. “It was a utopia,” camper Denise ...

Stories of sweeping social change are always compelling, but I have a soft spot for documentaries which explore the lives of the people behind the movement. That’s something Crip Camp: A Disability ...

Barack Obama made a surprise appearance during one of the “Crip Camp” socially distanced workshops, with the former president sharing video from the virtual visit Sunday, a day that all marks the 30th ...

In the early 1970s, a then 15-year-old Jim LeBrecht spent a summer at Camp Jened in upstate New York. For LeBrecht, who was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, the experience at a hippie-run ...

PARK CITY, Utah – It wasn't Judith Heumann's first standing ovation, but it might have been her loudest. Heumann, who had polio as a baby and uses a wheelchair, has for decades been one of the leading ...

When I attended the Sundance Film Festival last year to watch the documentary “Crip Camp,” I was overwhelmed by people repeatedly asking me the same question. I am featured in the Oscar-nominated ...

Some viewers might balk at the subject matter of "Crip Camp" as too didactic or dour. But that's the ableism talking. I spend a lot of my time talking about the state of disability representation in ...