Leroy F Moore Jr.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Challenge: Cerebral Palsy
Website: facebook.com/KRIPHOPWORLDWIDE
Leroy F. Moore Jr. is a Black writer, poet, hip-hop artist, 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 read and saw 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 consultant on Race & Disability, co/founder & community relations director of Sins Invalid.
He is also the creator of Krip-Hop Nation (Hip-Hop artists with disabilities and other disabled musicians from around the world) and produced Krip-Hop Mixtape Series.
With Binki wi of Germany and Lady MJ of the UK started what is now known as Mees With Disabilities, an international movement. Leroy formed one of the first organization for people of color with disabilities in the San Francisco Bay area that lasted five years. He is associated with the National Black Disability Coalition.
Leroy was Co Host of a radio show in San Francisco at KPOO 89.5 FM, Berkeley at KPFA 94.1 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. He is one of the leading voice on police brutality of people with disabilities. Leroy currently writing a Krip-Hop book with Professor Terry Rowden. Leroy has won many awards for his advocacy from the San Francisco Mayor’s Disability Council under Willie L. Brown to the Local Hero Award in 2002 from Public Television Station, KQED in San Francisco.
Leroy has interviewed hip-hop\soul\blues\jazz artists with disabilities; the Blind Boys of Alabama, Jazz elder Jimmy Scott, Hip-Hop star, Wonder Mike of the Sugar Hill Gang, DJ Quad of LA, Paraplegic MC of Chicago, Rob DA Noize Temple of New York to name a few. Leroy has a poetry CD, entitled Black Disabled Man with a Big Mouth & A High I.Q. and has put out his second poetry CD entitled The Black Kripple Delivers Krip Love Mixtape. Leroy is a longtime columnist, one of the first column on race & disability that started in the early 90’s at Poor Magazine in San Francisco , Illin-N-Chillin.
Leroy F Moore Jr. - "Frida Kahlo, One Of My Beautiful Kripple Angel (One of many)"