Bob Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy ...

After a car crash left him quadriplegic in 1973, the ADAPT of Texas organizer fought for accessibility and inclusion at every ...

Kafka was a fixture at the Texas and U.S. Capitols, pushing lawmakers to make housing, transportation and voting more ...

Disability rights advocate Bob Kafka, who passed away at 79, devoted his life to protecting vital legal safeguards for people ...

People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to ...

The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates ...

The Trump administration proposed cuts for state-based legal services for disabled people, as rights advocates say DOJ pushed ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Zary Amirhosseini came to the U.S. in 1979 when she was a child. Born in Iran with severe scoliosis, her family couldn’t find a specialist to perform the surgery she needed. “A lot of people with ...

Black history and disabled history are more aligned than people realize, with many Black icons experiencing some form of disability. Abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth had a ...

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...

Community Resources for Independence (CRI), a nonprofit organization, is hosting the First Annual Fire & Ice Winter Fest to ...