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 ...

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 ...

It has been two months since Kendrick Lamar delivered one of the most iconic and shadiest Super Bowl performances, which had folks talking for weeks and crowned him the winner of his rap beef with ...

The title alone—“crip” is of course short for “cripples,” the latter not an acceptable adjective these days, though it is used here by the 1970s media to describe “an occupation army of ...

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Discover What’s Streaming On: Most “4th of July movies on Netlfix” lists would point you to patriotic war movies like White House Down or Patriot’s Day. Both of those films are on Netflix, if that’s ...

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 ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in four adults in the United States, 61 million people, live with a disability. Those include people with mobility, cognition, independent living, ...

*Serena Williams revealed that her Crip Walk during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance was at his request. The tennis legend, who appeared during Lamar’s “Not Like Us” track, said ...

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 ...

The doc is set to screen at the Eccles Theater, opening this year’s Sundance Film Festival on Thursday night. With a Netflix release imminent and backing from Obama & Co. the hope for filmmakers is ...