Leroy
@blackkrip
Berkeley, CA USA
Joined May 5, 2011
Leroy Moore is a Black writer, poet, hip-hop\music lover, community activist and feminist with a physical disability. He has been sharing his perspective on identity, race & disability for the last thirteen years or so. His work began in London, England where he discovered a Black Disabled Movement which help led to the creation of his lecture series; 'On the Outskirts: Race & Disability. Leroy F. Moore Jr. is a co/founder and community relations director of Sins Invalid go to www.sinsinvalid.org. He is also a consultant on Race & Disability, producer, columnist, of Illin-N-Chillin at Poor Magazine, www.poormagzine.org. Leroy is the founder of Krip-Hop Nation, was a Co Host of a radio show in San Francisco at KPOO and KPFA FM. He has studied, worked and lectured in the field of race and disability concerning blues, hip-hop, and social justice issues in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa. Leroy currently lectures for Speak Out, a national speaker's bureau AND writing his upcoming book, poetry book Black Kripple Deliver, Black Kripple Delivers Krip Love Mixtape, and Krip-Hop book.
Leroy is one of the leading voice on cases of police brutality and wrongful incarceration of people with disabilities. He has put together the first ever, BLACK DISABLED ART HISTORY 101 Power Point Presentation using images from Blues and Hip-Hop to peg leg dancers and Black disabled painters, authors to actors and actress. The digital images are on a laptop with music a
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