Earlier this year, United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region invited us to partner with them in producing a 21-Day Equity Challenge focused…
Category: Disability Rights
Rise Up! Disability Resistance, History & Pride Celebrate Ed Roberts Day with us! Many of us in the disability community are unaware of the depth…
Celebrating Black History Month Johnnie Lacy was an early leader in the independent living movement, advocating at the intersection of race and disability years before…
Celebrating Black History Month Lois Curtis paved the way for people with psychiatric, developmental, and intellectual disabilities to get out of institutional settings and live…
Celebrating Black History Month When Brad Lomax helped found the Washington chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969, he had already been diagnosed with…
Disability Network recently presented anti-ableism training at the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Police Academy as part of their implicit bias training. When we learned that…
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, or NDEAM. The purpose of NDEAM is to raise awareness and educate people about disability employment issues and…
Ableism 101: Everything you know about disability is (probably) wrong! In its simplest form, ableism is the belief system that tells us it is better…
A Rooted in Rights Original Documentary Join us online for this film and discussion. When the Fair Labor Standards Act passed in 1938, it included…
Very Exciting News! Author and disability rights activist, Judy Heumann, will be joining us for this online book discussion of her recently-released book Being Heumann:…