On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses--which didn't have wheelchair lifts--to demand access to public transit.

Disability rights groups throughout the country have voiced their opposition to the lawsuit. The Arc of Texas, which ...

There is a saying that a person has two deaths: the first happens when they physically die, and the second takes place when ...

Attorney and activist Lydia X. Z. Brown, a Chinese American with a non-conforming gender, knows what it’s like to experience discrimination because of race, ethnicity and sexual expression. Brown, who ...

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

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.

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 ...

Lavina Oduor is a Kenyan humanist social activist, co-founder, and current Director of Heart to Heart Smile, a volunteer-led ...

Key parts of the Welsh government's flagship plan to improve disabled people's rights need to be rewritten, according to the equalities watchdog. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has ...

Last week, a mask ban in Nassau County, New York was signed into law. If I lived just 60 miles east of my New Jersey town, I would be under threat of a fine or jail time every time I left the house. I ...

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services office complex at Dorothea Dix Park North Carolina's health agency and a nonprofit defending people with intellectual and development ...