They pushed for changes to the built environment and, in some cases, took to the streets—using sledgehammers to create their own curb cuts or chaining themselves to buses. They chanted "access is a ...

In the fall of 2024 a federal lawsuit was opened by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for the lack of curb cuts in our newly constructed Ox Ridge Elementary School.  I filed that ...

Curb cuts—those small ramps at the edge of sidewalks—are now a standard part of city design, but they didn’t exist until disability rights advocates demanded them. In the late 1960s and ...