Human rights must include disability rights, and disability rights must include racial and women’s rights. According to the CDC, “Over one in four adults in the United States lives with a disability.” ...
T he Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation is the first comprehensive history of the disabled community`s ongoing struggle for civil rights. Co-authors Doris Zames Fleischer, a ...
A new memo from disabled leaders argues that oppression is disabling and that interdependence is essential to building a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disability rights leader, activist and author Judith "Judy" Heumann died on Saturday at age 75, her team confirmed on Saturday.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jennifer Erkulwater speaks on her research about people of color and the disability rights movement. People of color, especially ...
Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? When I first rolled into the San Francisco Bay Area in the summer of 1983 ...
Celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities should be accompanied by reflection for the global human rights movement. Honest reflection compels a consideration as to whether and how ...
In this op-ed, Emily Flores writes about how the #MeToo movement has excluded the disability community from its narrative. Sometimes, I still look in the mirror and catch myself scrupulously analyzing ...