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 ...

The film navigates the question every disabled person and their family eventually faces: What happens when the people who ...

In a world increasingly focused on diversity and inclusion, people with disabilities continue to be sorely underrepresented. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 1.3 billion people ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Headshots of Bonnielin Swenor (left) and Scott Landes (right). Next week, a virtual conference co-hosted by Syracuse University will focus on how countries, programs and researchers measure disability ...

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 ...

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 ...

From St. Louis to Zimbabwe, this year’s recipients are dismantling old frameworks—and building new ones through imagery. NEW YORK, May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images, a preeminent global ...