Gallaudet University — founded in 1864 as a school ... To tell the story, “Deaf President Now!” weaves together archival footage and contemporary interviews with a number of the students ...

The Gallaudet students begin “Deaf President Now!” united by a defiant attitude ... the hearing woman appointed university president. Hlibok is visibly nervous at the start but gains ...

Deaf President Now!' is so much a part of my community's history ... The 100-minute documentary recounts the eight days of historic protests held at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. in 1988 ...

There is a lot of protest, righteous anger and civil disobedience in “Deaf President ... selection of a hearing president at Gallaudet, the world’s first public university for the Deaf in ...

The events depicted in “Deaf President Now!” — a documentary revisiting the 1988 protest by students at Gallaudet University that led to the selection of the school’s first deaf president ...

“Deaf President Now!” — a title that comes from ... was that in some way, Gallaudet was not a university, but rather a charitable institution. Spilman was accused of even saying that she ...

Deaf President ... protest at Gallaudet University – the world’s only all-deaf university – in response to the institution’s selection of a hearing person as its president.

Their demand is simple: they want a deaf president. Now. Gallaudet University, in Washington DC, had never had a deaf president in its 124-year history. So when the board of trustees elected another ...

RASCOE: That's Jerry Covell signing to the crowd at Gallaudet University ... is told in a new documentary on Apple TV+, "Deaf President Now! " It's co-directed by Davis Guggenheim and my next ...