OVERCOMING THE ODDS: A Restaurant Without Barriers
Lidia visits a barrier-free restaurant, for those with disabilities, in East Harlem, NY. After being paralyzed in a car accident, sommelier Yannick Benjamin left the hospital feeling lucky. “I had so much privilege and fortune and luck having family and friends supporting me.” He has seen others who weren’t so fortunate. “Many didn’t have the resources to be able to go back to their homes, and instead had to go to nursing homes, and that seemed incredibly unfair.
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