EditorialMembers of the White Hands Choir of Venezuela, which includes deaf and hard of hearing performers, during a rehearsal for a new production of Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio,” in Los Angeles, April 8, 2022. (Michael Tyrone Delaney/The New York Times)
EditorialTimel Benton, right, a senior quarterback at Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf and hard of hearing, and his cousin, Carter Coleman, in Elgin, S.C., on Sept. 26, 2020. (Sean Rayford/The New York Times)