Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This March 2024 photo provided by Sandy Ho shows Yomi Young, left, speaking with Alice Wong at Wong's 50th birthday party in San ...

More than 10 years later, queer and disabled activists of color coined the term “ disability justice ” to create a framework that went beyond the disability rights movement’s single-issue focus on ...

“Tobeas sad as you want to be, to disconnect from your people’s pain — these are luxuries,” says Shatha Abusrour, a disability rights activist based in Bethlehem in the West Bank who coordinates ...

One July morning in 1990, a crowd gathered on the White House lawn, some in wheelchairs, others holding signs, many with tears in their eyes. President George H.W. Bush lifted his pen and signed his ...

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Diversity Equity Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) Collection DSI "Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong died Friday because of an infection at a hospital in ...

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