About NBDC

National Black Disabled Coalition (NBDC), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a national response to the need for Blacks with Disabilities in America to organize around issues of mutual concern and use our collective strength to address disability issues from all communities of color.

The goals of the NBDC are:

•    To foster OPPORTUNITY for ethnic minority individuals with disabilities;

•    To promote UNITY among ethnic minority individuals with disabilities, our families, and our communities; and

•    To advance EQUITY within the disability movement, our home communities, and our country.

We believe that people with disabilities from ethnic minority communities should unite to obtain and secure the rights and privileges of full participation in our communities and in our country. Using strategies from the civil rights movement, NBDC seeks to achieve personal growth, collective power, and societal inclusion for people with disabilities from all communities of color.

We foster opportunity by gathering and disseminating information to communities of color about the disability movement, disability rights, and disability services. We offer venues for original works that support our mission.

We promote unity by developing and disseminating programs that (a) enhance both ethnic pride and disability pride and (b) engender fellowship and support. NBDC creates unique opportunities for people of color with disabilities and our allies to network, receive training, and begin to work across our experiential and disciplinary boundaries. We work to build coalitions among communities of color and disability communities.

We advance equity by modeling and providing training in cultural competency in disability and in ethnicity. NBDC’s work encompasses all conditions, all impairments, and all severities. Everyone is welcome at NMDC.
 

"For People of Color, oppression based in disability sits within institutional racism." Coby Gravel