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11/21/2020
Disability leaders condemn NJ's handling of COVID, worry about 2nd wave Disability leaders condemn the state's handling of the pandemic and are concerned about November and December as cases are on the rise again.
08/13/2020
Advocate Tom Spadaro is helping people with disabilities obtain the PPE they need Tom Spadaro was able to get delivery of needed PPE products to himself and 41 others and now he is hoping the effort goes state and nationwide.
06/27/2020
Horrific: Texas man with disability dies after doctors refuse to treat him for COVID-19 Michael Hickson, 46, has died from starvation in Texas after doctors refused to treat him for COVID-19 because of his disability.
05/27/2020
'Like a living hell’: Brooklyn man sent to psych ward by cops who insisted he was someone else, lawsuit claims A routine police stop of a Brooklyn man turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare when cops insisted he wasn’t who he said he was — even after he showed them his driver’s license — and shipped him off to a psych ward for not knowing his name, a new lawsuit claims.
05/03/2020
Meet the Dancer Combining Sign Language & Hip Hop Shaheem Sanchez lost his hearing as a child, but now as a professional dancer, teacher, and advocate he is on a mission to make ASL dance a movement. His work points to possibilities all around us, probably hiding in plain sight, if we can just eliminate our assumptions.
07/23/2020