Civil rights and disability rights are connected. Both work to achieve equity. | Opinion
Louisville is a shining example of how to connect disability, civil rights and equity. Combined activism can establish DEI ...
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Disabilities Beat: If federal funding stops, what’s at stake for disabled people?
Last week, an attempted federal funding pause caused panic and confusion for people with disabilities and the services that ...
Buffalo News6d
It's time to show up for disability rights
Accessibility is something that those leaders in the disability rights community who came before ... Act this year – that we are still fighting for physical accessibility to places, even when ...
The Washington Post29d
Why I risked my health to photograph disability rights advocates crawling up steps of Pa. Capitol
Disability rights are so far behind when it comes to ... family. It’s not just a fight for my community; it’s a fight for everyone now and in the future. Hopefully we won’t be dragging ...
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Trump’s Executive Orders Rolling Back DEI and Accessibility Efforts, Explained
These orders represent a deliberate attempt to undo progress on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and create ...
Badger Herald3d
Self-advocates: UW students with disabilities fight for access, inclusion on campus
It’s 8 p.m. on a Thursday in late January, the sun set over two hours ago casting darkness over the University of Wisconsin’s ...
‘My life as a blind lawyer in Ukraine’s frontline city’
Oleh Lepetiuk has spent his career fighting for disability rights and is now working to support those wounded by war ...
The Brooklyn Paper8d
‘I am not useless’: Fort Greene teacher fights to keep job after DOE denies disability accommodation request
Disability rights are protected by federal ... If we get any indication that the DOE is seeking to circumvent that procedure, we would fight it tooth and nail, as we always do.” When reached for ...