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. I spend a lot of my time talking about the state of disability representation in media. It's never been a good time to be disabled ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Crip Camp on Netflix has arrived today, and not a moment too soon. Though we are stuck inside, there are ways to continue to educate ourselves, become better people, gain ...

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 ...

"Crip Camp" has been named the best documentary of 2020 at the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards, the International Documentary Association announced on Saturday at a virtual ceremony. The film, ...

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 ...

Awards columnist Scott Feinberg explains why this is such a strange year for the Oscars, and how the event’s producers are attempting to keep the glitz and glamour for this year’s ceremony. Then the ...

The latest Netflix documentary follows the history of midcentury disability rights activism in the United States and tells the story of Camp Jened, a safe haven in upstate New York for the differently ...

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 ...

With 81 million disabled people in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 1 in 4 Americans has at least one disability. That makes disabled people the largest minority in the U ...

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 ...