During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...

On Monday, we will celebrate the life and work of one of the most well-known and influential leaders of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders of the ...

DENVER — A small museum tucked inside the offices of Atlantis Community Inc. is working to preserve and share the largely untold history of the disability rights movement in Denver nearly five decades ...

Disability justice activists are joining grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta’s Cop City, the largest police training campus in the U.S. When then-Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced in ...

On April 25, four disability rights organizations sued California state agencies and officials in an attempt to overturn the End of Life Option Act, a seven-year-old law that allows doctors to ...

Zona Roberts, recognized as the “grandmother of the disability rights movement” has died at the age of 104. Described as “the embodiment of fierce love” by Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda, the executive ...

From ramps outside buildings, to the small textured bumps at the start of crosswalks, to sign language interpreters at big events — most people have probably seen the effects of the Americans with ...

For more than 30 years, a movement has been underway in the United States to create campus programs for students with intellectual disabilities to pursue higher education and reap learning and career ...

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We’ll speak with Dara Baldwin, author of the new book, To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement. Dara is an activist, scholar, and author with over twenty ...

This article on social work in the 1990s is the third in a five-part series by Professor Ray Jones for Community Care's 50th anniversary. Each part will look back at key events from the previous five ...

This blog regularly covers disability and ableism as neglected issues within greater human rights movements. A recent article we co-wrote makes a further point that facial disfigurement is even more ...