Tony Coelho, the Americans with Disabilities Act's main author, sees a new wave of threats looming for disability rights.

James LeBrecht moved to the cradle of the disabled rights movement as a young man. After graduating from UC San Diego in 1978, he was drawn to Berkeley where the first Center for Independent Living ...

Judy Heumann, who has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement, has died at 75. Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, lobbied for legislation ...

Relying on archival footage and interviews with activists, lawmakers and other key players, the one-hour film chronicles how the disability rights movement organized and took to the streets to lobby ...

Seventeen. That’s the number of states suing the US government to end federal protections for disabled individuals. 880 billion. That’s the amount of money that Congress is primed to cut from Medicaid ...