Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person enters a voting booth in Tennessee. It’s a big election year. People are already declaring candidacy for office, and the ...

The entertainment industry may be missing out on a significant market opportunity, with the latest research from Easterseals showing that representation of disabilities in media has stagnated despite ...

Representation matters. For the disability community, authentic media portrayal isn’t just important, it’s necessary. Stereotypes often overshadow real experiences, missing critical voices. This gap ...

“True Biz” follows a headmaster and her students at the River Valley School for the Deaf through first love, loss and injustice. The split perspectives tackle three main characters and several side ...

Inevitable Foundation‘s latest survey has found that audiences have expressed “dissatisfaction” with disability representation in the entertainment industry. The “Audiences Are Waiting for Hollywood ...

The 2024 Paralympics closed in style on Sunday. The Stade de France in Paris transformed into a huge electronica dance party with the world’s elite para-athletes doing a farewell conga. It was a ...

The film navigates the question every disabled person and their family eventually faces: What happens when the people who care for you can no longer do so?

Hollywood could get a major boost if film and television shows paid more attention to depictions of disabilities, new data suggests. A survey of more than 1,000 people, half with disabilities and half ...

If one were to ask the average media viewer about disability at the Academy Awards, they’d probably refer to Marlee Matlin winning the Oscar for Best Actress for the 1986 feature “Children of a Lesser ...

The coming-of-age drama “Out of My Mind” from Disney+ and Bleecker Street’s dramedy “Ezra” are among the films recognized by the Ruderman Family Foundation for their “groundbreaking commitment to ...

As “Wicked” cast wheelchair-user actress Marissa Bode in the key role of Nessarose, the filmmakers wanted to ensure that the representation onscreen was “very intentional” from the jump — which ...

The attorneys at Robert Peirce & Associates have been helping individuals that can no longer work, due to an injury or chronic illness, since the firm was established. Bob Peirce, founder of the firm, ...