Post Date: Mar 31, 2026
By Cierra Duncan March 31, 2026
On a November night in 1967, Lex Frieden, MA, was a freshman in college riding back to campus with friends. What happened next would change his life forever.
“We had a head-on impact,” Frieden recalled. “Everybody jumped out of the cars, and I was still in the back seat and couldn’t move.” An X-ray later confirmed a broken neck. The injury left him without the use of his arms or legs.
On a November night in 1967, Lex Frieden, MA, was a freshman in college riding back to campus with friends. What happened next would change his life forever.
Houston Division, operator of Kroger grocery store #300 in Houston’s Clear Lake/NASA area, violated federal employment law when it failed to accommodate and then fired an employee because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed last week.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pleased to share the NIH Strategic Plan for Disability Health Research FY26-FY30.
This new plan provides a comprehensive roadmap to advance innovative, responsible research that promotes the health and well-being of Americans with disabilities.