A cherished advocate for the local disability community and national spinal cord injury community has passed away.

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

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — News 4 and First Fidelity Bank are celebrating a woman who has been working behind-the-scenes for decades. She is an Oklahoman and an advocate for disability rights. Her work ...

Troy resident Clifton Perez, born legally blind, has spent his life blazing trails and fighting for the rights of people with disabilities. In the late 1970s, for example, he was perhaps the first ...

Local disability advocates will be holding a Disability Pride celebration Saturday as a way to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The event, which ...

Bob Kafka, a renowned disability rights advocate, died at his Austin, Texas, home on Friday. He was 79 years old. Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a ...

Alice Wong, a nationally recognized disability rights advocate and author who founded the Disability Visibility Project, has died at 51, CNN reported. Her family announced her death Sunday, saying she ...

Washington, D.C. leaders are mourning the loss of a "fierce champion" for disability rights, Mathew McCollough.

The Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which protects the rights of disabled individuals, faces a 62% budget cut. The center serves 46,000 developmentally disabled Kansans and is considered a vital ...