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How does our history of segregation and discrimination towards minority communities impact the way social justice movements and disability rights organizations operate?
Joeita Gupta speaks with three individuals from the Black disability community to learn more about how conversations about race and disability are interconnected.
Dr. Sami Schalk, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains Black disability politics and shares how the erasure of Black disabled history impacts conversations around disability rights.
Scholar and activist Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware discusses the history of the Black Panther Party and tells us how social justice movements across Canada are organized.
Disability rights activist Gift Tshuma examines how race and disability cause attitudinal barriers in the workplace, dissecting how facing these barriers allowed Gift to create their own opportunities.
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