Disability rights

Oklahoma City: Hundreds protest cop killing of deaf neighbor

Hundreds came out in protest in Oklahoma City on Sept. 24, outraged at the cop killing of their Latinx neighbor,…

September 27, 2017

Disability Pride rocks NYC for health care, access

By Mary P. Kaessinger and Edward Yudelovich More than 7,500 people with disabilities, along with their families, caregivers, friends and…

July 24, 2017

Battle-tested people with disabilities fight for rights

July is widely celebrated as Disability Pride Month in the U.S. This year, the month marks the 27th anniversary of…

July 5, 2017

‘Healthcare Not Wealthcare!’: Disability rights activists arrested

“Healthcare not Wealthcare” was a sign left behind at the die-in protest on June 22 inside Senate Majority Leader Mitch…

June 27, 2017

Riders with disabilities express righteous anger at MTA board meeting

The Metropolitan Transit Authority has never produced an official map of the New York City subway system that only shows…

June 6, 2017

People with disabilities battle Trump

Ari Ne’eman, president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, warned about Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president: “It’s a disaster.…

April 6, 2017

Trump isn’t crazy–he’s a capitalist

The writer self-identifies as a person with mental illnesses. A common insult hurled at President Donald Trump by the liberal…

March 6, 2017

Cop fired for not shooting Black man undergoing mental health crisis

By Benji Pyles and Jeremy Bauman Weirton, W.V. "[S]ociety is split into antagonistic, and, moreover, irreconcilably antagonistic classes, whose ‘self-acting’…

September 21, 2016

Rev. C.D. Witherspoon opens campaign for Baltimore NAACP president

The Rev. C.D. Witherspoon, a leader of the Baltimore People’s Power Assembly, and the president of the Baltimore Southern Christian…

September 11, 2016

People with disabilities fight back

First, there were one or two. Then, a few dozen. By 3 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 1, hundreds of people…

August 12, 2016