Zona Roberts, recognized as the “grandmother of the disability rights movement” has died at the age of 104. Described as “the embodiment of fierce love” by Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda, the executive ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 13, 2012) - The Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco (ILRCSF) has today unveiled a new website (www.ilrcsf.org) and launched a capital campaign to ...

Laws define a nation’s institutions and ensure stability across political shifts. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (CBICA) is one such safeguard, ensuring funds allocated ...

A clipping from the Chicago Sun Times on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 shows one of the many actions taken by disabled people across the US to advocate for independent living in the decades since the ...

Susan O’Hara, a leader in the disability rights movement, died earlier this month in her Berkeley home at the age of 80. O’Hara grew up in La Grange, Illinois with her four siblings before moving to ...

Judy Heumann, a renowned activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, has died at age 75. News of her death Saturday in Washington, D.C., was posted on her website ...

EAST PEMBROKE — The East Pembroke Grange program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Grange Hall on School Street. James E. Moody, director of Independent Living of Genesee Region, will speak. His ...

Baroness Wilkins, the former Rosalie Wilkins, who has died aged 78, presented Link, Britain’s first television programme dealing purely with disability issues, drawing attention to the problems faced ...

WASHINGTON — Judy Heumann, a renowned activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, has died at age 75. The news of her passing on Saturday in Washington, D.C., was ...