Dear Special Needs Network Families and Friends, At the end of December 2019, the government in Wuhan, China, confirmed the detection of a new disease and treatment of a handful of cases. On January 11th, 2020, China reported its first death from the novel respiratory...

Last Friday, the world lost one of the most iconic, inspirational, and motivational women we have ever known— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A feverish defender of civil rights and a true visionary for gender equality, the late justice Ginsburg was a woman who was ahead...

It is with great sadness that I and Special Needs Network mourn the loss of Vernon Jordan. For over fifty years, Jordan was a social justice pioneer focused on combating racial segregation and advancing civil rights legislation. A graduate of DePaul University and...

As others have said, this legislation is an important step forward in acknowledging that for Black Americans, freedom did not come in 1776. It did not come in 1862, with the Emancipation Proclamation. It only came two years after the signing of the Emancipation...