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It is likely that a Pennsylvania man will never walk again after being shot by a Lehigh County constable who was attempting to serve a warrant for unpaid parking tickets. The constable told NBC Philadelphia that he shot 38-year-old Kevin McCullers because he felt his life was in danger. 

On Saturday, Eric LeGrand got wonderful news. Rutgers University, his alma mater wanted him to give this year’s commencement speech later this month. The decision came after former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice announced that she would not be giving the speech, after a wave of protests from faculty and students at the school. It […]

One of the victims injured by a teen in a fatal drunken-driving accident will receive a settlement of close to $3 million in cash and other payments. Sergio Molina, 17, was paralyzed when then 16-year-old Ethan Couch slammed his pickup into a group of people who were helping a woman with a stalled car in […]

Leon Ford Jr.’s entire life changed last November after a routine traffic stop escalated to gun shots, leaving Ford paralyzed. His family believes the officers acted unlawfully. Now they are seeking justice for Ford who still faces charges.

11 year-old Tayloni Mazyck has been left paralyzed after being struck by a stray bullet. Surgery on Saturday saved her life, but doctors fear she may never walk again.

Rangers, Astros draft paralyzed baseball players Dennis Waszak, Associated Press (via The Grio) | June 9, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — Johnathan Taylor and Buddy Lamothe may never play baseball again after accidents left them partially paralyzed. That didn’t matter to the teams that picked them Wednesday during the final rounds of the Major League Baseball […]

by Janyce Glasper Hannah Bledsoe loved Linda Crawford. Yet Hannah desperately needed a quiet, isolated place to paint alone. One simply could not crash on a college friend’s couch forever. She found salvation in the good neighborhood— a drafty basement converted into a studio apartment. The tightly jarred windows and cracked ceilings poorly congealed together […]

by Dom Alexander Rummaging through a dead man’s possessions is, perhaps, the strangest thing I’ve ever done. I sit on the floor in his room. The setting, orange sun seeps through the window. I breathe in the pungent cologne, still clinging onto curtains. The carpet sinks, coinciding with the dancing footsteps of a ghost, stepping […]

Content Warning: Ableism, Car Accident, Death and Discrimination by Dominique Alexander McPhearson I’m in my room watching old NBA highlights, since the NBA, along with the rest of the country, is on lockdown. Quarantine doesn’t bother me as much as it seems to bother other people. After an accident left me paralyzed from the chest […]

by Briyana D. Clarel This summer, I attended a conference for community-minded artists in New York City. Despite the conference’s commitment to activism, days passed without any Black presenters and the few presenters of color spewed dangerous rhetoric like “We’re all immigrants” and “It’s about class, not race.” Of course, the Black contingent came through, […]

by Riya Jama The first time I experienced debilitating cramps. It awoke me from sleep. I will never forget how stunned I felt by the intensity of the pain that engulfed my pelvic area, forcing me to crawl on my hands and knees to get help. If I could have screamed, I would have, but […]

Chad Robertson, 25, died in a Chicago hospital a week after being shot in the back while fleeing from a pair of Amtrak police officers outside of Union Station. His death was ruled a homicide and a result of a gunshot wound to the back, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.