Interview with Leroy Moore - Krip Hop

Leroy Moore is a Black writer, poet, hip-hop\music lover, community activist and feminist with a physical disability. He is the co/founder & community relations directoy of Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid.org) 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 consultant on Race & Disability, producer, columnist, of Illin-N-Chillin at Poor Magazine, www.poormagzine.org, creator of Krip-Hop Mixtape Project, Co Host of a radio show in San Francisco at KPOO FM and creator of Krip-Hop radio show on www.alltalk.net. 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. Leroy 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 and books about some of the artists. For more than ten years Leroy has collected CDs, videos and articles from Blind Blues Artists and has rare CDs from Hip-Hop artists with disabilities. Leroy has interviewed hip-hop\soul\blues artists with disabilities; DJ Quad of LA, Paraplegic MC of Chicago, Rob DA Noize Temple of New York and the Blind Boys of Alabama to name a few. Leroy has performed with Molotov Mouths, Po’ Poets, the Welfare Poets and has been a guest artist\lecturer in High schools and Universities across the country and in Canada & UK and Holland. Leroy has a poetry CD, entitled Black Disabled Man with a Big Mouth & A High I.Q. Leroy created and produced Krip-Hop Miixtape Series. Leroy co-