NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- In 1980, former president Jimmy Carter designated June 27 as National Helen Keller Day -- exactly 100 years after her birth. "Helen Keller refused to let her handicaps cut her ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Mark Twain once said the two most interesting characters of the 19 th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller, but a series of TikTok-based conspiracy theories have young ...

Helen Keller got a lot done in her lifetime. Much of it had nothing to do with her disability, though some of it did. But her stature as a public figure has created myths that reveal as much about ...

Revisit the remarkable career and life of an icon who became a human rights pioneer. Revisit the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller, who was deaf ...

While the world marked International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3, the history of people with disabilities is still not fully taught in schools. In the U.S., if American schoolchildren ...

When Helen Keller first arrived at Cedar Beach on Long Island’s East End, she told her neighbor that she could sense everything around her. “How beautiful the water and trees are,” she said. She was ...

I asked that Miss Keller relate the steps by which she turned into the uncompromising radical she now faces the world as Helen Keller, not the sweet sentimentalist of women's magazine days. "I was ...

LifeHouse Theater presents the original musical “Helen Keller,” part of its Sunday Night Special series, this week. “Helen Keller” made its return to the LifeHouse stage last June to a sold-out ...

In today’s vernacular, Helen Keller would be called a social justice warrior, but too often people only see her as a seven year-old who learned to communicate at a water pump. My personal connection ...

Mrs. Ida Hirst-Gifford, advance agent for Helen Keller, famous blind and deaf woman, is in the city today, making arrangements for the appearance here of Miss Keller, who is going about the country in ...