O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...

A feature film is in the works about a prominent activist known as the “mother of the disability rights movement.” Apple Original Films said it is making a movie about Judy Heumann who was ...

Black and underserved communities face disparities in health care access, employment, and insurance coverage. The new Norton West Louisville Hospital aims to bridge the health care accessibility gap ...

DENVER — A small museum tucked inside the offices of Atlantis Community Inc. is working to preserve and share the largely untold history of the disability rights movement in Denver nearly five decades ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Happening today is a first for all of Montana. Photographer Tom Olin worked to document the disability rights movement for the last 40 years. This one-day-only display shows the raw ...

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...

As a disability advocate for over 40 years, I have long admired the Kennedy family’s legacy. I vividly remember U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s iconic speech at the 1980 Democratic National Convention: “The ...

We’ll speak with Dara Baldwin, author of the new book, To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement. Dara is an activist, scholar, and author with over twenty ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act became law 35 years ago. Coloradans reflect on our state's pivotal role and on the progress still to be made. Then, ahead of a special session of the state ...

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