Documenting Black Disabled Movements Across the African Diaspora: The Krip-Hop Radio Series
- Leroy F. Moore
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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 States. More recently, my work has expanded to Brazil, where I have collaborated with Black disabled scholars, organizers, and artists working to build a stronger disability justice movement.
These interviews are more than radio broadcasts; they form a living archive of Black disability history, resistance, and international solidarity. Through Krip-Hop Radio on POOR Magazine’s Revolutionary Radio, KEXU 96.1 FM, I have created one of the few ongoing media projects dedicated to preserving the voices of Black disabled activists around the world.
One of the earliest programs in this international series featured the Black Disabled Movement in the United Kingdom. I spoke with Michelle Daley, Lyl Olaf, and Saadia Neilson activists connected to the Black disability organizing that emerged in Britain during the 1990s. Our conversation examined the persistence of racism and ableism, the failure of government reports to produce meaningful change, and the renewed political organizing inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The series continued with Julie Jaye Charles, a Black disabled advocate and minister in the United Kingdom. Drawing from my memories of London’s Black Disability Movement during the 1980s, we discussed the ongoing struggle for visibility, funding, leadership, and opportunities for Black disabled communities.
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As Krip-Hop Nation expanded into Brazil, the radio series documented the emergence of Black disabled organizing there. I interviewed Luciana Viegas, Lauren Avery, and João Nunes about their report urging the Brazilian government to address the intersecting discrimination experienced by Black people with disabilities. Our discussion also explored international collaboration between Brazilian activists and Krip-Hop Nation.
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Most recently, I interviewed psychologist and activist Cleciane Cruz dos Santos, with translation provided by Bartira Sene, musician, activist and now leader of Krip-Hop Nation’s Brazil chapter. Cleciane discussed anti-racist and anti-ableist mental health practice, disability activism in Brazil, and the work of the Black disabled movement in Brazil. The interview also celebrated the growing partnership between Brazilian organizers and Krip-Hop Nation, demonstrating how Afro-Krip politics continues to develop across national borders.
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Taken together, these broadcasts represent decades of community-based scholarship and movement documentation. They preserve histories that are too often absent from mainstream disability studies and Black history while connecting Black disabled communities across continents. The Krip-Hop Radio Series serves not only as a record of activism but also as an international archive of Disability-Centered Black Liberation and the growing global vision of Krip-Hop Nation.
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