Bob Kafka, an Austin-based activist who pushed for accessibility at the local, state and federal level for more than 40 years, died at his home in Austin on Friday at the age of 79. For years, the two ...

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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 ...

We asked executive director Mireille Sayaf to tell us more about the Ocean State Center for Independent Living.

For the past five years, Nick Battiola called his Disability Rights Wisconsin victim advocate, Pam Malin, any time he felt on the verge of a breakdown, whenever memories of the caregiver who became ...

Some thoughts about language–and the words we use–prompted by a conversation with Joy Weeber, Raleigh’s hard-charging disability rights advocate. Hard-charging. Now there’s a term. By that, I’m trying ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bob Kafka, an Austin-based activist who pushed for accessibility at the local, state and federal level for more than 40 years, died at his home in Austin on Friday at the age of 79. For years, the two ...