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Explore the top 10 human rights campaigns that made a significant impact, raising awareness, advocating for justice, and driving transformative change.

Zukas, an "unsung hero" of the disability rights movement held politicians' feet to the fire

This years list includes the likes of British military officer Lawrence of Arabia, storyteller Hans Christian Andersen and more.

This years list includes the likes of British military officer Lawrence of Arabia, storyteller Hans Christian Andersen and more.

Commentary Sometimes, when I find myself thinking once again about my sister Joyce Jackson and the role that ...

/ Section 504 protesters gathered at UN Plaza in San Francisco to protest government indifference and to insist that Section 504 regulations be signed. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA. Over a decade earlier, more than 100 people with disabilities took over a San Francisco federal building. In this story, we hear how they paved the way for the ADA.  Ever wonder what that building is connected to the Ashby BART station in South...

Credit Courtesy Ola Ojewumi On this weeks Take Note, Ola Ojewumi talks with WPSUs Cheraine Stanford. Ola is a public speaker, patient advocate and mentor. A double transplant and cancer survivor, Ola graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a bachelors degree in government and politics. As a student, she founded two nonprofits that distribute toys and books to children awaiting organ transplants, provide scholarships to low-income students, and funding for womens education pr...

Crip Camp, by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Photo: Steve Honigsbaum When James “Jim” LeBrecht was 15 years old, he picked up a video camera and pointed it at Camp Jened, a utopian summer camp in upstate New York for teenagers with disabilities. That summer day in 1971 was a seminal moment in the future filmmaker’s life as LeBrecht introduced his fellow campers to the camera. The film footage LeBrecht captured would later be included in Crip Camp – a documentary he and fellow Oakland...