History

• “The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party.” Disability Social History Project. Dec. 2021. https://disabilityhistory.org/2021/12/19/the-504-protests-and-the-black-panther-party/
• “Brad Lomax—Uniting the Civil Rights and Disability Rights Communities” The Center for Learner Equity. Feb. 2021. https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/brad-lomax-uniting-the-civil-rights-and-disability-rights-communities/
• Black History Month 2017: “Brad Lomax, Disabled Black Panther” http://www.rampyourvoice.com/black-history-month-2017-brad-lomax-disabled-blackpanther/
• Disability Rights Michigan. Civil Rights & Disability. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI, https://ddi.wayne.edu/possibilitiespodcast/civil_rights_disability_rights_drm.pdf
• Ojewum, Ola; NBC News. “Why Black History Month needs to feature the stories of the disabled,” https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/why-black-history-month-needs-featurestories-disabled-ncna1259029
• Giovanniello, Sarah. “Remembering Jazzie Collins, Transgender activist.” glaad, July 2013. https://www.glaad.org/blog/remembering-jazzie-collins-transgender-activist
• Independence Now.“Johnnie Lacy, Social Justice Pioneer” https://www.innow.org/2021/02/01/johnnie-lacy/
• The Center for Learner Equity. centerforlearnerequity.org, “Fannie Lou Hamer – Paving the Way for the Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Disability Rights Movements” https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/fannie-lou-hamer-paving-the-way-for-the-civil-rights-womens-rights-and-disability-rights-movements/
• Early, Rosalind. “The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer” Humanities: The Magazine of The National Endowment for the Humanities. 2021.  https://www.neh.gov/article/sweat-and-blood-fannie-lou-hamer
• Senior & Disability Action. “Disability History.” Senior & Disability Action.   https://sdaction.org/about/disability-history/

Health

• McCoy, Terrence. “How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks.” The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-companies-make-millions-off-lead-poisoned-poor-blacks/2015/08/25/7460c1de-0d8c-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
• Carten, Alma. “How Slavery’s Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans” The New Republic, https://newrepublic.com/article/122378/how-slaverys-legacy-affects-mental-health-black-americans
• Johnson, Cyree Jarelle. “A Paradoxical History of Black Disease” Disability Visibility Project, https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/05/14/a-paradoxical-history-of-black-disease/

Activism, Law, and Politics

• Sins Invalid. “10 Principles of Disability Justice.”Sins Invalid, Sept. 2015. https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice
• Berne, Patty. “Disability Justice: A Working Draft.” Sins Invalid, June 2015. https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/disability-justice-a-working-draft-by-patty-berne
• Lewis, Talila A. “Trump’s Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History.” Truthout, https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-rule-attacking-disabled-and-low-income-migrants-has-violent-history/

• Lewis, Talila A. Disability Justice In the Age of Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on Race, Disability, Law & Accountability, Northeastern University School of Law Public Interest Law Syllabus, Summer 2016. goo.gl/uwGIB0. Course Archive: #DisabilityJusticeNUSL.
• Hurst, Adrienne. “Black, autistic, and killed by police.” Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/black-autistic-and-killed-by-police/
• Jaffee, Robert David. “A Tribute to Tanisha Anderson: African-American Schizophrenic and Lost on the Streets.” HuffPost, Feb. 2015.   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-tribute-to-tanisha-ande_b_6722294
• Bell, Christopher M. Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 2012. https://msupress.org/9781611860108/blackness-and-disability/
• Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, October 2022. https://www.dukeupress.edu/black-disability-politics

Art & Literature

• Schalk, Sami. Body/Minds Reimagined. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, March 2018. https://www.dukeupress.edu/bodyminds-reimagined
• Brown, Keah. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me. Atria Books, NY, NY, Aug. 2019. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pretty-One/Keah-Brown/9781982100544
• Pickins, Therí Alyce. Black Madness:: Mad Blackness. Duke University Press. Durham, NC, June 2019. https://www.dukeupress.edu/black-madness-mad-blackness
• Moore, Leroy. Black Disabled Art History 101. Xochitl Justice Press, 2017. http://www.xochitljustice.org/buy-books-2/black-disabled-art-history-101
• Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. Penguin Classics, NY, NY. Oct. 2020. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623541/the-cancer-journals-by-audre-lorde-foreword-by-tracy-k-smith/
• Lorde, Audre. “The Uses of the Erotic/The Erotic as Power.” the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mount Holyoke College, August 25, 1978. Keynote Address. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e7cf4825b02c00b6a142f0c/t/5f4bee98ceb27e4afe99bd7c/1598811800640/audre_lorde_cool-beans.pdf
• Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower. Grand Central Publishing, NY, NY. April 2019. https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries