When Marlee Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the role of Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God, she became the first deaf person to win an Oscar. She would remain the ...

In 1988, a protest took over a Washington, D.C., college campus. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JERRY COVELL: [inaudible] . RASCOE: That's Jerry Covell signing to the crowd at Gallaudet University, ...

Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim tell a story of revolution on a college campus with the narrative verve of "Andor." It’s not just a protest you’re watching in “Deaf President Now!” It’s a revolution ...

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 gesture that has ...

RASCOE: That's Jerry Covell signing to the crowd at Gallaudet University, telling them, I am as insulted as you all. The problem - the choice to leave the University for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing ...