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 ...

Lachi is telling her story. The musician, who was born legally blind, is set to release her memoir I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity and Power in early 2026, ...

This year, the United States will celebrate 29 years of civil-rights progress under the Americans With Disabilities Act. And yet the more than 56 million Americans with physical, sensory, mental, ...

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 ...

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People with mental, emotional and cognitive disabilities face significant limitations in their daily life. They’re considered disabled under the law. Yet, some people with mental health conditions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The word "disability" is empowering because it is enshrined in civil rights laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. Similarly, Face Equality International opts to use the term "disfigurement ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act became law 35 years ago. Coloradans reflect on our state's pivotal role and on the progress still to be made. Then, ahead of a special session of the state ...