Hugh Gallagher Dies; Crusaded for Disabled

Diana Griego Erwin: How much has really changed for disabled people struggling for rights? Click here for article.

Wheelchair-Accessible London. Click here for article.

Stairway to Justice. Click here for article.

By HARRIET McBRYDE JOHNSON

Eugenics In America

The justification? The kids had been labeled feeble-minded, and were put away in conditions that can only be described as unspeakable. Click here for article.

Washington (AP) - Calling many of the city's parking meters inaccessible, activists for the disabled filed suit Wednesday against the District of Columbia government. Click here for article.

Advocates for Disabled Sue D.C. Over Parking Click here for article.

In New Tests for Fetal Defects, Agonizing Choices for Parents. Click here for article.

The Disability Gulag

By HARRIET McBRYDE JOHNSON. Click here for article.

Unspeakable Conversations

By HARRIET McBRYDE JOHNSON
Should I have been killed at birth? The case for my life. Go to Article

In last Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Click here for article.

The Disability Gulag

By HARRIET McBRYDE JOHNSON. Click here for article.

Medicare drug law becomes bitter pillPresident Bush had hoped that the passage of the Medicare prescription-drug bill would be one of the crowning achievements of his administration, but so far it has turned out to be one of the messiest policies, being attacked on several fronts. Click here for article.

Low-income seniors pass on Medicare drug cards. Click here for article.

New Plan Offers Seniors, Disabled Low Cost or Free Drugs Senior Citizens and disabled persons on Medicare will now have the opportunity to get most of their prescription medications at a special discount beginning June 1. The program, referred to, as "Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Cards" is the first step in the Federal Medicare program to insure prescriptions for people on Medicare beginning 2006. Click here for article.

Private Sponsors of Medicare Drug Cards Unveiled. Click here for article.**

Bush Medicare Reform Bill Become a Nightmare for GOP

WASHINGTON - Enactment of a sweeping Medicare reform law last year was supposed to be the crowning achievement of President Bush's "compassionate conservatism" as he readied himself for re-election. Click here for article.

Canadian Paralympic athlete Jeff Adams celebrates at the end of his climb on the Athens Acropolis as part of his efforts to raise awareness about achievements of people with disability September 28, 2004. Adams completed the steep climb over marble steps in less than 20 minutes. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

The Disabled, in an Emergency; Labor Department Office Urges Government Agencies to Be Prepared. Click here for article.

This weekend will bring German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to the Paralympics as well as the Queen of Spain. Click here for article.

Shotput medalists from the Athens Paralympics: (from the left) George Karaminas (Greece, silver), Peter Martin(New Zealand, gold) and Riko Glangla(Germany, bronze). (ANA)

No Paralympic TV may cost New York Olympics . Click here for article.

Mr. Smith, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “On a Roll: Talk Radio on Life & Disability,” turned the conference room into a locker room and gave his nearly 200 “players” a halftime pep talk about the game of life. Click here for article.

Charges dropped yet held 6 years. Click here for article.

Attorneys for a Baltimore County man who has been locked up in a mental ward even though a series of minor charges against him were dropped six years ago have discovered that his monthly disability check of about $400 has been going into the state treasury, apparently to defray the cost of his forced confinement. Click here for article.

Officials Say Wait to Get Medicare Card. Click here for article.

Report: White House Wrong on Medicare Cost. Click here for more.

Hot line offers help on Medicare Drug Discount cards. Click here for article.

WASHINGTON - Medicare will have to begin dipping into its reserves this year and without changes will go broke by 2019 — seven years earlier than expected — because of rising health costs, trustees warned Tuesday. Click here for article.

Brown v. Board: Disabled Children. Click here for article.

May 17, 2004 marks the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in which the Supreme Court held that school districts violated the Fourteenth Amendment by racially segregating children in schools. What follows is a review of segregation of children based on disability. Click here for article.

Democrats say White House 'video news releases' mislead. The GAO will investigate.

On Monday, less than a week after it concluded that the administration's Medicare commercials and fliers were technically legal but contained "notable omissions and errors," the General Accounting Office said it would conduct another investigation to determine whether the video news releases constituted illegal "covert propaganda." Click here for article. or Click here for NY Times version.

As seen on ABC 2020.

Uncompromised Life Disabled Teen Leads by Example. Click here for article.

Disabled Author Wins Literary Prize

In fact, the infant had been consigned to an orphanage, one of the prison-like institutions where Soviet society hid its disabled children and adults from public view. Click here for article.

The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability

I have a confession to make: I do not work. I am on SSI.1 I have very little work value (if any), and I am a drain on our country’s welfare system. I have another confession to make: I do not think this is wrong, and to be honest, I am very happy not working. Instead I spend the majority of my time doing the activity I find the most rewarding and valuable, painting. Click here for article.**

Cast members (L-R) Ryan Hudson, Lacey Chabert, John Slattery, Laurie Hedgepath and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio are shown in this undated publicity photograph from the cable television movie 'The Brooke Ellison Story' directed by actor Christopher Reeve. The film dramatizes the real-life triumph over adversity of Brooke Ellison, who, at age 11, was struck by a car and paralyzed from the neck down. Ellison overcame her disabilities and later graduated with honors from Harvard University. Chabert portrays Ellison in the movie,which was the last directorial effort by the late Christopher Reeve.

Suicide a growing problem worldwide. Click here for article.

Gyms Adjust to People With Disabilities . Click here for article.

Bree Walker: Taking the sting out of disability. Click here for article.

11 rockers, 8 wheelchairs and a gig ROME When the pop rock group Ladri di Carrozzelle (Wheelchair Thieves) starts a set with their pounding, funky riffs, people in the audience tend to look around to see if they're singing in playback. It's as though they can't conceive that a stage full of nearly immobile musicians in wheelchairs could produce such a bold, at times rowdy, sound. Click here for article.

On A Roll

Broadcast premiere Tuesday, February 15 at 10 p.m. on PBS (60 minutes). Click here for more.

Jamie Foxx won Oscar nominations for "Ray" and for Best Supporting Actor in "Collateral." Click here for article.

THE MEDIA AND DISABILITY

Stevie Wonder has joined forces with WGBH to create some music video history.
The video for Wonder's new song, ``So What the Fuss,'' will include two audio tracks. Along with the standard music track,
a second track will be a descriptive audio track enabling blind and vision-impaired fans to better understand the video's story line. Click here for article.

Wonder was born Steveland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, MI, on May 13, 1950 (he later altered his name to Steveland Morris when his mother married).
Wonder enters his fifth decade as one of the most prolific artists in music history, delivering 35 U.S. albums
- 28 major studio releases - with album sales totaling more than 72 million units. Click here for more.