News From A Colorful Perspective
For more than 50 years, Northwest Center in Seattle has been the middleman for so many great working relationships between businesses and people with disabilities. Attitudes about people with disabilities were very different in 1965. The low expectation for people with disabilities prevented families from pushing limits in education and…
The principal of a high school in New Orleans has made national headlines for his decision to support his staff rather than have free food. According to WWL-TV, Dr. Steven Corbett, principal of Lusher High School, declined free lunches for the school’s teachers as part of an event that was…
Montgomery, Ala., a city known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, just elected its first Black mayor, Judge Steven Reed. Montgomery is a majority-black city but had been one of three cities with a population over 100,000 in the Deep South that had never elected a Black mayor,…
City council members in Cincinnati voted to pass an ordinance outlawing discrimination based on natural hair texture and style. The ordinance passed with a vote of 7-1, with Councilman Jeff Pastor absent. Amy Murray was the lone “no” vote. She claims protections against hair discrimination should already be assumed to…
Elizabeth Peratrovich is set to be the first-ever Alaska Native woman to be featured on U.S. currency. Peratrovich — who was part of the Tlingit Nation — played a key role in getting the earliest U.S. anti-discrimination law passed. The Anti-Discrimination Law of 1945 prevents discrimination on the basis of…
In a major victory for the disabled community, the Supreme Court has dismissed Domino’s appeal to throw out a ruling that would force the pizza chain to make its website and app accessible for people with disabilities. Three years ago, a blind customer, Guillermo Robles, attempted to order a pizza….
Last year, Boston’s famous Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) made national headlines because it was accused of racism after Black middle school students said they were mistreated by museum staff. A staff member allegedly told the students: “No food, no drink and no watermelon.” That wasn’t the end the debacle. The…
As harmful as the internet can be, sometimes it plays into the hands of people with disabilities quite nicely. For a population that sometimes struggles to convey how they feel to their peers, the World Wide Web could serve as a pulpit for conveying thoughts, dreams and fears, all from…
A jury made up mostly of people of color convicted former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger of murder and sentenced her to 10 years in prison — less than the prosecution wanted but more than many thought Guyger would get because she is both white and an officer. Experts are…
It is well known in the disability community that it is just harder for us to find jobs. The unemployment rate for people with disabilities in 2018 was 8%, more than double the rate of people without disabilities (3.7%). To ring in National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Independence Center…
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