The documentary recalls the 1988 protests that erupted at Gallaudet University when trustees rejected deaf candidates to lead it. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an ...

More than three decades ago, a week-long protest on a college campus caught the attention of the whole country and led to resignations of university officials. But you probably don't know about it.

The students were fed up. It was March 1988, and the board of trustees overseeing Gallaudet University, founded more than a century earlier to educate deaf and hard-of-hearing students, chose to ...

It is 1988 and students at the world’s only deaf university have risen in fierce protest. They burn effigies, barricade the gates, occupy buildings and make their voices heard in the press. Their ...

It takes years to become fluent in sign language, according to a principal figure in the documentary “Deaf President Now!” It isn’t something you learn overnight. And yet, there’s one ...

There is a lot of protest, righteous anger and civil disobedience in “Deaf President Now!” Yet there is a small act of personal defiance in Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim’s documentary ...

RIVERTON, Utah (KSTU) — For 18-year-old Chloe Swain, life hasn’t always been easy. “I was born with auditory neuropathy, and it made it so that I started losing my hearing,” she said. “I ...

Nyle DiMarco is a true renaissance man—a noted model, actor, filmmaker, activist, author, plus the winner of both America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With The Stars—and he credits his ...

The last day of school in Florida ranges from May 22 to June 5. Students in 16 counties will see the last day of school May 22 or May 23. Students in 44 of the state's 67 counties will see the ...

For the documentary, DiMarco, a Deaf actor-advocate, and Guggenheim interviewed the four Gallaudet graduates – Greg Hlibok, Jerry Covell, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, and Tim Rarus – who were ...

Four students. Eight days of protest. One big change in university leadership. It's the pivotal moment in history you probably don't know about! "Deaf President Now!" follows the events on the ...