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Topic: disability rights

ASL interpreters have all but disappeared from press briefings and live events. Above is from last year's 34th Anniversary Celebration of the passing of the American Disabilities Act. (John McDonnell / Getty Images)

White House sued over ADA accessibility

CK Smith
Lloyd Mills spent more than eight months of this year living in a small room at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. (Sam Whitehead/KFF Health News)

Georgians still being institutionalized

Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at the White House on July 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Is the backlash against Biden ableist?

Matthew Rozsa
Disabled person on wheelchair using car lift (Getty Images/24K-Production)

Driving's hidden strain on disabled folk

Matthew Rozsa
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Participants holding signs demanding subway accessibility in Brooklyn, New York. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

COVID changed disability rights forever

Matthew Rozsa
Rush hour with taxis, bicyclists and people (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Driving as a form of class privilege

Matthew Rozsa
President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), thirty-fifth president of the United States, relaxes in his trademark rocking chair in the Oval Office. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

How JFK hid his disability

Matthew Rozsa
View of demonstrators in wheelchairs in Central Park, many with signs that read 'Stop Reaganism, Not Social Services (and) Jobs' and an another in support of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibited discrimination against people disabilities and which was, at the time, under threat from the Reagan administration, in New York, New York, July 12, 1982 (Leif Skoogfors/Getty Images)

The fight for disability rights

Matthew Rozsa
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President Jimmy Carter, seated at desk in Oval Office of White House | Demonstrators in wheelchairs picket lobby of the Federal Building as they concluded their first week of a sit-in in offices of HEW department, in protest of the Carter Administration policies. The demonstration has been entirely peaceful. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jimmy Carter and disability rights

Matthew Rozsa
Empty disabled seats at an airport in the waiting area before boarding. (Getty Images/Thankful Photography)

The disability rights battle in the sky

Matthew Rozsa
"We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" by Eric M. Garcia (Photo illustration by Salon/Kristin Herbruck/Mariner Books)

Who speaks for the autistic?

Matthew Rozsa
Parapan Athlete Tiana Knight demonstrates Blindsquare, an iPhone app that helps blind people by voicing out what's around them. (Chris So/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

New tech, better quality of life for all

Kristen Shinohara, Garreth Tigwell - The Conversation
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Airplane travel illustration (Art Glazer/Getty Images)

Talls matter! Air travel's legroom wars

Bob Cesca
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at the Galivants Ferry Stump on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in Galivants Ferry, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Buttigieg releases disabled rights plan

Matthew Rozsa
Protestors from ADAPT, a grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, block the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the White House for nearly four hours September 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Disability Rights saved my life

Nadina LaSpina
Sam Alexander, Ben Alexander's father, assists Ben during a math language class at Tulane University in New Orleans. Ben Alexander, 22, has nonverbal autism, a condition that became apparent when he was 2 years old. (AP/Jonathan Bachman)

When autism is physically impairing

Matthew Rozsa
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RJ Mitte in “CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion” (YouTube/Gold Pictures)

"CinemAbility": Hollywood and disability

Matthew Rozsa
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Getty/Alex Wong)

Special-needs scandal at State Dept.

Matthew Rozsa
Brett Kavanaugh (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Kavanaugh's strange abortion history

Amanda Marcotte
Betsy DeVos (AP/Alex Brandon)

DeVos nullifies disability protections

Taylor Link
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(Getty/Salon)

Uber and co-ops

Matthew Rozsa
(Salon/Benjamin Wheelock/AP/Michael Dwyer)

Bye bye, Bernie

Anna March
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A tale of Texas hypocrisy

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Meryl Streep (Reuters/Rick Wilking/Getty/Paul Drinkwater)

watch: streep drops Trump mic

Matthew Rozsa
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