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Krip-Hop Nation: Disability in African American Music 
Leroy Franklin Moore, Jr.

Leroy Franklin Moore, Jr., presents the music, lives, struggles and achievements of black, blind blues and disabled hip-hop artists to highlight the racism, ableism, and economic environments that surround minority disabled artists. With a focus on success stories and hope, the presentation describes the strategies of racialized artists with disabilities and offers examples on how to include the work of these artists, their books, and CDs in classrooms, in media and in other organizations.

Moore, who was born with cerebral palsy, is a writer, poet and community activist based in San Francisco. He has studied, worked and lectured in the field of race and disability in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and South Africa. Currently, he is a columnist for POOR Magazine and a lecturer for Speak Out, a national speakers’ bureau. His readings, lectures and workshops are a mixture of personal, historical, political and cultural experiences and the raw reality of being black and disabled in the U.S. 

IOD Presents Krip Hop Nation - Part 1