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‘Being Heumann’ Review: Disabled People Righting Wrongs, Staking Out Rights

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Source: NYT > Arts

A weekslong occupation of a federal building by activists, including Judy Heumann, the “mother of the disability rights movement,” is detailed in this lively docudrama.

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