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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

James LeBrecht moved to the cradle of the disabled rights movement as a young man. After graduating from UC San Diego in 1978, he was drawn to Berkeley where the first Center for Independent Living ...

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 ...

As a disability advocate for over 40 years, I have long admired the Kennedy family’s legacy. I vividly remember U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s iconic speech at the 1980 Democratic National Convention: “The ...

Alice Wong, who has been a leading light in the movement for disability rights and one of its most powerful advocates from her generation, died on Friday (November 14) at 51. The award-winning author ...

To the editor: The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act did truly help those with disabilities (“The Americans With Disabilities Act changed my life. Now my generation needs to fight for it,” July 26) ...

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 ...