By DAVID PETTINICCHIO, WASHINGTON POST (JULY 23, 2019)–This month we celebrate the anniversary of the second-most important civil rights law in American history behind only the 1964 Civil Rights Act: the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which Congress passed in 1990. But while you might hear this law lauded, you likely won’t hear about the […]
Paralyzed in an accident at 23, she devoted her life to changing perceptions of the disabled and was a key player in passing the Americans With Disabilities Act. By GLENN RIFKIN, New York Times (Published August 8, 2019) When she was 23, Marca Bristo, a nurse in Chicago, was sitting with a friend on the […]
By JAMES BARRON, THE NEW YORK TIMES “We’re cutting it a little close,” Gabriela Amari said as the F train sat in the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn, its doors open, waiting for a train up ahead to move. She was going to the stop after next. Ms. Amari was 50 minutes into her hourlong […]
