Protesters flooded the rotunda of the Illinois Statehouse earlier this month, urging legislators to increase wages for caregivers of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The ...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act," a new documentary tells the emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and accessibility that ...

A little known protest that helped pave the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act is the subject of a documentary that’s set to be released. “Deaf President Now!” tells the story of eight days ...

MAGGIE DOUGHERTY and TOM O’CONNOR Medill Illinois News Bureau with Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Protesters flooded the rotunda of the Illinois Statehouse earlier this month, urging legislators ...

Chad Schultz, 36, at a disability right rally. Shultz, who was born with Down syndrome and has some medical issues, gets help from a personal care assistant several times a week thanks to a government ...

Ashlie Bell-Seibers, a cancer survivor left blind in one eye, gets nervous in front of crowds. Still, she grabbed a microphone on June 3 in front of Nashville's federal building to speak about the ...

The Trump administration’s weeks-long immigration enforcement campaign in Minneapolis, which has shuttered schools and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans With ...