This summer, we witnessed several events involving the intersections of Black, disabled and/or chronically ill identities.

Link To The News “For decades, essential workers, who are disproportionately Black, people of color, immigrants, women, and other...

“Together we can reimagine and create a new economy that works for everyone, and clap back to ensure that tens of millions of people who...

I lost my hearing when I was about two years old. Doctors and other health professionals told my parents that I would only do menial...

Link To The News “Everything that’s wrong with our society was a set of choices, and the beautiful thing about that is we can make a...

Link To The Video “We are people with disabilities building power and inclusive social justice movements.”

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f we actually reorient our society to be good for people with disabilities, every single person benefits. If we were to really radically...

“We ask for disability access because when we evolve our institutions to be fully inclusive, we can build a world where all are free.”

“It is a time of momentous, intergenerational, mutli-racial unity, and collaboration that defends our human rights, rejects outdated,...

Link To The News “...many non-disabled people think that because we have civil rights protections, things are fine...but we need more...

“...the lack of diverse and intersectional leadership charged with actively lifting up and protecting and loving people with hearing,...

Link To The News “I want you to remember this moment when we all came together in unity. With love. For our Black brothers and sisters....

Black + Disabled Lives Matter Protest at Spirit of Detroit Plaza, Monday June 11th 2020 4pm-6pm.

Detroit Disability Power is partnering with Warriors on Wheels in a census campaign to get members of our disability community counted.

Self-Care for Social Justice in the Time of COVID, book reading and conversation w/ Author Naomi Ortiz and facilitated William Copeland.

Link To The News “Crip Camp...is not a film about disability as burden or tragedy... [It] is a chronicle of the disability rights movement.”

Link To The News “...current policies adopted by the state would discriminate against residents with "a severe underlying disease" in the...

Link To The News “Locally, a group of about 110 social justice organizations from around the state...has been pushing back to our...

Link To The News "The biggest challenges are making sure that all students have the technology needed in order to move forward to an...