Early 'voice mails' of disability rights pioneers discovered

In a crackly voice recording, from 1945, newly-weds Len and Peggy Tasker can be heard on a recorded message during a trip to ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

Disability-rights arguments grow heated at Supreme Court, though sweeping ruling appears unlikely

WASHINGTON — A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five-alarm fire.” ...

AS DISABILITY RIGHTS FACE UNPRECEDENTED PRESSURE, FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH ITS MOST URGENT LINEUP YET

Featuring No One Cares About Crazy People, narrated by Bob Odenkirk; investigative Holocaust documentary Disposable ...
The Gazette

Disability rights lawyers threatened with budget cuts, reassignments

The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for ...
WLWT

As the ADA turns 35, groups fighting for disability rights could see their federal dollars slashed

Nancy Jensen believes she’d still be living in an abusive group home if it wasn’t shut down in 2004 with the help of the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which for decades has received federal ...

Guide Dogs for the Blind Launches Advocacy Month in April to Celebrate Progress Made in Disability Rights

Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) has designated April as its inaugural Advocacy Month, a time to celebrate progress in ...
WYSO Public Radio

In 1978, they stopped buses — and helped launch a disability rights movement

People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and ...
CNBC

Disabled workers are getting screened out of digital hiring

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec Nearly 35 years after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodations for ...
Iowa Public Radio

Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51

Alice Wong, an author and activist who fought for disability rights and justice, has died. Wong was 51 years old. The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner died Friday of an infection at the University of ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

As the ADA turns 35, groups fighting for disability rights could see their federal dollars slashed

Andy Washburn has been in *** wheelchair for 20 years. He knows what it's like to learn to live with *** disability. Washburn works at the Granite State Independent Living Foundation to help others ...