Laughing at Disability: Remembering Cartoonist John Callahan
In the same week we celebrated the 20th year anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act I learned that writer and cartoonist John Callahan passed away. He was a cartoonist who said what other...
View ArticleDisabled Residents Plead Their Case To Get More Accessible Cabs
A meeting among taxi industry stakeholders is taking place at the Governor's office on Friday, as he considers whether to sign the Bloomberg administration's 5 Borough Taxi Plan. Disabled New Yorkers...
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Court Rules NYC Taxis Need Not Be Wheelchair Accessible
(New York, NY - WNYC) A federal appeals court has struck down a ruling that would have required New York City to give taxi licenses only to wheelchair-accessible vehicles.The Second U.S. Circuit Court...
View Article1 in 10 New Yorkers Might Be at Risk in Case of Evacuation
Hours before Sandy hit on Oct. 28, 2012, Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood in an evacuation shelter on the lower east side and urged residents of Zone A — the area most in danger of flooding — to get...
View ArticleJudge: "City Does Not Have an Adequate Plan" for Evacuating Vulnerable During...
A federal judge has ruled that New York City is not adequately prepared to evacuate disabled residents during emergencies, a problem that came to the forefront during Sandy and Irene.Judge Jesse...
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Disabled New Yorkers Sue for Safer Streets
When Myrna Driffin walks down the street, she negotiates her way through crowds of people more focused on their smartphones than they are on her.“I wonder who’s the blind one then, let’s put it that...
View ArticleA Challenge to Developers: Software to Help People with Disabilities
It's been nearly 25 years since President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act, bringing changes to our built environment, like ramps and guard rails. Now there's a new effort to...
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Disabled Community 'Walks, Rides and Rolls' Down Broadway to Celebrate ADA
Former Iowa Senator and Parade Grand Marshal Tom Harkin helped author the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And while he praised New York City for a quarter-century of curb cuts, widened...
View ArticleADA Turns 25
Susan Dooha, executive director of the Center for the Independence of the Disabled, New York (CIDNY), and Lennard Davis, distinguished professor of Liberal Arts in the departments of disability studies...
View Article25 Years After the ADA, a Pioneer Continues to Fight
Over 6,000 athletes are in Los Angeles to compete in the summer Special Olympics. They come from 165 countries and will golf, run, fight (judo is included at the event) and play tennis. First Lady...
View ArticleManhattan Boro President Finds Broadway Violates the ADA
The Manhattan Borough president wants to talk about where the sidewalk ends.A new report released Tuesday from Gale Brewer's office found that less than 10 percent of the sidewalk curb cuts along...
View ArticleWhy Rosemary Kennedy Was So Often Overlooked
Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses Joseph and Rose Kennedy's third child, who suffered from mental illness and was later lobotomized, leaving her severely disabled. "Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy...
View ArticleInvestigation Finds City Schools Inaccessible to Children with Disabilities
A Department of Justice investigation has found that only 17 percent of New York City elementary schools are fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The two-year investigation also...
View ArticleOpinion: More Schools Must Be Accessible to Disabled
Twenty five years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and over 40 years after the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, it seems incredible to us that...
View ArticleDOJ: South Dakota Illegally Institutionalizes Thousands With Disabilities
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.The Justice Department has found that South Dakota is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In a letter sent to Governor Dennis...
View ArticleNew York State Board of Elections and Department of Motor Vehicles Sued for...
Eva Eason, 49, is blind, which means that when she goes online, she uses software which can read text on certain web sites aloud or translate it into Braille so she can read it herself.A year and a...
View ArticleWhen the School Building Itself Is a Barrier to Equal Education
Emma Albert, 14, has never entered her school through the front door. The eighth grader has a vascular malformation on her left leg, which means that since the first grade she used a wheelchair though...
View ArticleChance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform
Chance is one of the biggest stars in hip-hop, and one of the most political musicians working today. In the midst of nationwide protests for racial justice, he talks with David Remnick about his...
View ArticleA New Documentary Explores How to Make Art While Blind
This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act—a landmark of civil-rights law that has not fully gotten its due. Twenty-six per cent of people in this country are...
View ArticleThe Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on both moral and fiscal grounds. But some of the key...
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