Disability rights activist Isabel Mavirdes-Calderón posed a question on her Instagram last September. More than a decade before, a shooter killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary ...

Indiana Disability Rights, the organization that manages the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness program in Indiana, could see cuts under Trump's budget proposals. A program ...

Raymond Fletcher, a longtime disability rights activist in Northwest Indiana who was born with a genetic disorder that caused its own complications, died Aug. 5. He was 48.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — 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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In May, the Department of Energy quietly introduced a proposal to eliminate its ...

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 ...

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 ...