Deaf President Now!’ Trailer Sets Incredible Civil Rights Movement Ablaze

Apple TV+ is bringing light to one of the greatest civil rights movements that has largely been left in the shadows with its new documentary, Deaf President Now!. A new trailer previews the firestorm that erupted in 1988 when the board of trustees at Gallaudet University, the world's only college for the deaf, elected a controversial hearing president to oversee operations. Furious over the highly qualified deaf candidates who were passed over for the job, students rose up en masse to protest the decision in a watershed moment for the Deaf community that would have ramifications far beyond the campus grounds. Packed with exclusive interviews with those involved and archival footage, the film premieres on May 16.