Illustration by Annie Spratt on Unsplash In 1991, I arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area and began a journey that would take me from San Francisco’s disability and community organizing movements, through Berkeley’s cultural and political struggles, into UCLA, and ultimately back to East Oakland. That journey has taught me a central lesson: Black disabled people cannot depend on institutions that marginalize our bodies, dismiss our knowledge, and displace our communities to c

Illustration by Boxicons on Unsplash Leroy F. Moore 8/3/26 Since the mid-1980s, I have traveled, written, organized, and conducted interviews documenting Black disabled movements across the African diaspora. Long before email, social media, or digital archives, I was building relationships with Black disabled activists from post-apartheid South Africa to the United Kingdom in the 1990s, Toronto in the early 2000s, and through the development of Krip-Hop Nation in the United S

By Unknown - Original publication: Unknown Immediate source: https://spartacus-educational.com/USACjacksonG.htm, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73302647 Leroy F. Moore 8/1/26 Abstract This essay introduces Afro-Krip Black August as a concept within Krip-Hop Theory that reimagines Black August by placing Disability-Centered Black Liberation at the center of Black freedom struggles. Building on the revolutionary legacy of George Jackson and the historical

Leroy Moore interviews Tinotenda Mudarikwa about people with disabilities organizing in Zimbabwe.

10/22, 10/24, & 10/26 Krip-Hop Nation’s first LA Event entitled, Trans-National Strategies in Erasing Black Ableism- A Krip-Hop Meet-Up...

By Leroy F. Moore From public section eight housing in Berkeley to graduate housing at University of California at Los Angeles no matter...

By Leroy F. Moore As an activist in my middle fifties, one very important thing that have been so obvious to me over and over again and...

By Leroy F. Moore “Black ableism,” a concept that I have been writing about for years (Moore 2024). Black ableism is a form of...