Essence Magazine:
By Malaika Jabali ·Updated November 9, 2021
Disability activist Engracia Figueroa passed away October 31, reportedly from complications after United Airlines damaged her custom wheelchair on a plane ride.
Hand in Hand, a network of domestic employers of which Figueroa was a member, stated that the wheelchair “was custom-designed to support her spinal cord injury and left leg amputation [and] critical to her independence, as well as essential to maintaining her health.”
After United reportedly
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