Black, brown, and elderly CHA residents languished and died, their names sitting on a de facto waiting list for nearly a decade before their much needed and deserved reasonable accommodations were ...
Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts. The second-grade student stumbled over ...
The Long Island facility is fully accessible and features 14 portals that peer into different moments in disability history.
We share a recent report that came out on national disability policy, how several organizations are speaking out, and what disabled people can do in light of concerning changes.
Forty years ago, disability advocates abandoned the LGBTQ+ community in exchange for legal protections. Decades later, they are fighting a Trump administration rule to roll-back more safeguards for ...
Last year, Republican attorneys general in 17 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), asking courts to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. Section 504 is part of the ...
Disability Rights California has condemned the wave of state-sponsored violence and called for an end to policies that it ...
A new bill would prohibit discrimination based on a parent's disabilities. Some disability rights advocates are uniting behind an anti-discrimination bill. Senate Bill 26 would preent disabled parents ...
A feature film is in the works about a prominent activist known as the “mother of the disability rights movement.” Apple Original Films said it is making a movie about Judy Heumann who was ...
When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...