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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This sign shows numbers and groups of Americans benefiting from the federal Medicaid program, which is being threatened with deep cuts proposed in the “Big Beautiful Bill” being debated at the Capitol ...

2 December 2024 - Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Tuesday, UN Secretary General António Guterres emphasised the crucial need to increase the leadership of persons with ...

This March 2024 photo provided by Sandy Ho shows Yomi Young, left, speaking with Alice Wong at Wong's 50th birthday party in San Francisco. (Sandy Ho via AP) (Sandy Ho) SAN FRANCISCO – Alice Wong, a ...

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 ...

Harvard researcher Ari Ne'eman says the policy shifts underway under the Trump administration pose a unique threat to people with disabilities,... When Ari Ne'eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call ...

Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong died Friday because of an infection at a hospital in San Francisco, said ...