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 ...

Co-authored by Lucienne Dale and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. The media has thankfully become more diverse over time. There has been an increase in the number of stories that discuss a range of gender, race ...

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 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?

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 ...

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 ...

How people see disabilities is heavily influenced by what they see in the media. When able-bodied actors play disabled characters, it can reinforce stereotypes and misconceptions about living with a ...

When it comes to representing the disabled community in advertising, how can brands and marketers get it right? We reflect on insights from Purple Goat’s Awareness to Action event. Improving ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. Sep 25, 2025, 03:39pm EDT The marketing industry must loosen ...