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11/12/2025

Congratulations to WXXI News' Brian Sharp for his award-winning Inclusion Desk story: "Deaf residents are suing Brighton. They say the police are discriminating against them"

Sharp was awarded First Place in Enterprise Reporting (Radio II) by the Journalists Association of New York.

The town is facing separate federal lawsuits claiming police violated state and federal law by not providing American Sign Language or other interpretive services to residents when requested.

11/03/2025

In a society where ableism and inadequate healthcare often limit true choices, "Life After" exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying.

From award-winning disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport (“I Didn’t See You There”), this film looks critically at where progressive values of bodily autonomy collide with the devaluing and fear of disabled lives.

Tune into WXXI-TV tonight at 10 pm EST or stream on-demand:

A gripping investigative documentary, “Life After,” coalesces the missing voices of the disability community in the contemporary debate around assisted dying. Independent Lens “Life After” airs Monday, November 3 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI app. This Independent Lens...

10/22/2025

Join us tomorrow afternoon!

What does learning look like beyond the classroom?

Join POV | American Documentary for Learning Beyond the Walls, a LIVE convo with filmmakers & organizers reimagining education through equity, resistance & community.

🗓️ Thursday, Oct 23 | 3–4PM ET
📍 Live on Facebook & YouTube ( )

10/20/2025

SAVE THE DATE: WXXI and Move to Include invite you to join POV for Learning Beyond the Walls: On the Frontlines of the Future — a LIVE conversation with filmmakers Samuel Habib & Dan Habib (The Ride Ahead), Kelly Anderson (Emergent City), and community leader Elizabeth Yeampierre, moderated by Ana Portnoy.

This timely discussion explores how education reaches beyond textbooks into communities, movements, and everyday acts of resistance.

Date: Thursday, Oct 23
Time: 3 - 4PM ET
LIVE on Facebook & YouTube ( & )

Tune in to hear how people and communities are redefining what’s possible, reclaiming independence, creativity, and collective futures rooted in equity and imagination.

10/16/2025

Move to Include and WXXI are proud to partner with POV on this upcoming conversation! Tune in online *next* Thursday at 3pm ET.

What does learning look like beyond the classroom?

Join POV | American Documentary for Learning Beyond the Walls, a LIVE convo with filmmakers & organizers reimagining education through equity, resistance & community.

🗓️ Thursday, Oct 23 | 3–4PM ET
📍 Live on Facebook & YouTube ( )

10/10/2025

Congratulations to Norm Silverstein on a very well deserved honor at last week's The Golisano Foundation Anniversary Gala. As WXXI CEO, Norm led the way on our annual Dialogue on Disability series with the Al Sigl Community and what would eventually become the Move to Include initiative of today. We thank Norm for all of his incredible work on our community's behalf and congratulate him on this award!

09/29/2025

From WXXI News and the Inclusion Desk:

On "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 9/24/25, a panel of autism advocates and health experts respond to President Trump's comments linking Tylenol and autism.

09/04/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended last night's screening of "Deaf President Now!" at The Little Theatre! We were so pleased to be joined by NTID President, Dr. Caroline Solomon, as well as many students and community members.

The film documents a 1988 major protest at a university for deaf students in Washington, D.C., and it found a very receptive audience Wednesday night in Rochester.

09/02/2025

September is National Deaf Awareness Month.

Did you know? Frontline and Maine Public teamed up to publish the award-winning podcast, Breakdown in Maine, as an ASL Video Podcast.

Watch now on Frontline's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pPc6-qR9ZxTn5B9sROkeUVkjtOkMR8E

08/01/2025

"We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way," writes ITVS boss Carrie Lozano as she assesses a less vibrant documentary landscape without the $9 million her organization provided annually to indie doc filmmakers behind titles like ‘Minding the Gap’.

07/26/2025

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). To learn more about the ADA and the movement for disability rights, check out American Experience's "Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act" now streaming on-demand at PBS.org:

The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.

07/21/2025

Samuel Habib is a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability.

Tune in tonight for the POV premiere of THE RIDE AHEAD on your local PBS station!

Samuel Habib is a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability. POV “The Ride Ahead” airs Monday, July 21 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI app. Meet Samuel...