July is Disability Pride Month! This year’s theme, which comes from The Arc’s National Council of Self-Advocates, is “We Want a Life Like Yours.”   The Arc states that the theme reflects “the disability community’s dreams for life experiences that are too often denied.”  The American with Disabilities Acts (ADA) was

Officially recognized as a Federal Holiday in 2021, Juneteenth (June 19th) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865, took control of the state, and ensured that all enslaved people were freed. It was the last American city to finally implement the Emancipation Proclamation (2.5 years