As a young man with cerebral palsy, he gained notice for his quest to be an Eagle Scout and changed Scouting. But his name had been mostly lost to popular memory.
The pop star’s decision to replace two words in her song “Heated” follows Lizzo’s removal of the same term, which has been used as a slur against disabled people, from her track “Grrrls.”
Should Shakespeare’s Richard III be reserved for disabled actors? Does the character have to be played by a white man? By a man at all? Three recent productions took different tacks.