December 3 marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day where we mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. To mark the occasion, we're ...

Bob Kafka, an Austin-based activist who pushed for accessibility at the local, state and federal level for more than 40 years, died at his home in Austin on Friday at the age of 79. For years, the two ...

Structured, court-ordered treatment is the right course of action for some brain disorder patients. In such cases, ideology ...

Zary Amirhosseini came to the U.S. in 1979 when she was a child. Born in Iran with severe scoliosis, her family couldn’t find a specialist to perform the surgery she needed. “A lot of people with ...

Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more.

A protester holds a sign in support of Medicaid at an April rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. A House GOP proposal would cut Medicaid payments to Minnesota and other states that provide healthcare ...

Black history and disabled history are more aligned than people realize, with many Black icons experiencing some form of disability. Abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth had a ...

Nonspeaking New Yorkers are among the most underestimated people in the state. Many have been labeled intellectually impaired ...

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 ...

That message is at the heart of a local disability-rights group’s push for change at the State Capitol. Last week, the ...

(New York) – Hilda Macheso, a Malawian disability rights advocate, is the 2025/2026 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Human ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) — The Colorado Senate passed second reading of House Bill 26-1040 on March 10, a measure that ...