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Brad Lomax: Creating Communities of Care
The story of a Black Panther Party member and founder of the East Oakland Center for Independent Living, who had multiple sclerosis and used a wheelchair. Explore Brad Lomax’s under-reported contributions to the early disability justice movement, which laid the groundwork for the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Today he is known as a kitchen supernova, but Jacques Pépin's career began humbly.
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