In this column, Kenneth Chike Odiwe advances a framework that reconceptualizes disability rights as a central pillar of modern civil rights advocacy rather than a peripheral concern. He argues that meaningful access requires moving beyond formal compliance with existing laws…

Kenneth Chike Odiwe, a civil rights attorney and founder of the Rising Voices Equity and Advocacy Initiative, writes from the vantage point of both active litigation and movement building to examine a central question facing modern civil rights advocacy: how…