American Masters

- [Lachi] One in four American adults have a disability, and I'm one of them.

I'm Lachi.

I'm a recording artist and disability culture advocate, and I'm here to introduce you to disabled renegades.

- Judy-Lynn del Rey is one of the unsung heroes of modern fantasy publishing.

She was both a genius at marketing and also had a really fine keen editorial eye.

- To be able to rise up in stature in the Senate to the point that he is the president pro tem, which is third in line to the president.

Only in America is that possible.

- The Department of Public Welfare declared me unfit to be a mother because of my disability, but they failed to realize my mental capacity.

- Thomas Wiggins was one of the major musical figures of the 19th century.

He wrote his first composition at the age of five, but he was Black, blind and enslaved.

Otherwise, he might be considered like Mozart.

- Brad Lomax was dedicated to the work and not the limelight.

- He was the beginning of disability justice, intersecting blackness with disability.

I face each day as a renegade