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Black Disabled South African College Student, Kanyisa Ntombini, Talks About Student Protests On Campuses & Moore!
(Leroy Moore’s Note: As you know Krip-Hop Nation have been connecting with musicians/activists with disabilities around the world for years especially in Africa and Krip-Hop Nation will be touring South Africa in November-December 10th. Leroy has been following the protests on college campuses in South Africa especially at University of Cape Town with disabled activist, Kanyisa Ntombini who have been organizing Black disabled poor students around disability justice issue on that campus. Kanyisa recorded an update for Krip-Hop Nation & Poor Magazine. B
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How are you? Thanks for your ongoing support of my/Krip-Hop Nation's work throughout the years! Now we come to one of our biggest dreams for Krip-Hop Nation, our South Africa Tour.
Naked Black/Brown Disabled Men Shot By Police has a long history (Here is my short list. Please add to it if you know any cases.)
I posted this in 2018 now in 2020 we have Daniel Prude!!
2018 Adam Trammell in Milwaukee, WI.
2018 David Joseph, Austin, TX.
2018 Selorm Ohene Boston, MA.
2018 Marcus-David Peters Richmond, VA.
2016 David Joseph Austin, TX.
2016 Alan Pean Houston, TX.
2015 Anthony Hill ATL.
2010 Reginald Doucet, Jr. LA. CA.
2001, an African American schizophrenic man, Bruce Seward Howard, CA
Youth Mentorship Stories
Family Meetings by Amir Cornish:
The Tearing Down Of Black Disabled Movements, Constantly Starting Over
Hello people it is July 2020 & the disability community is tied up with the 30 anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the middle of COVID and police brutality.
To The Recent Media Requests, Eat My Disability
My 2009 poem, Eat My Disability, is now in 2020 my reply of the suddenness wake up of mainstream media and popular movement around police brutality and out of the blue connection to disability and don’t give me no intersectionality crap because if you know me then you know I’ve been on this issue since the police killing of Eleanor Bumpers in 1984 and I connected all of her identities back then, an elderly, Black, woman, with a mental health disability.
My Krip Kamp Story, Honoring Ms. Bev Jackson
Now that Jim LeBrecht’s film, Crip Camp is out, I wanted to put my Crip Camp story out that started with a mirror that was named Beverley aka Bev Jackson, a director of United Cerebral Palsy Association and she was the director of Summer camp, Camp Harkness. Oh yeah Jackson like me was Black and disabled, same disability that I had cerebral palsy.
Broken Promises Before Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Now This: People with Disabilities
Today yes we are locked down if you have a home and as we wait once again to see if the people get bailouts many groups have been in this situation over and over. From democrats to republicans have so many broken promises toward people with disabilities going back to the 70’s..
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 back it took protests across this nation to get the regulations signed and enforced.
From Leroy’s 1980’s Road to Radio To Today’s KEXU 96.1 FM Krip-Hop Radio @ Poor Magazine
The biggest joke in my youth in the late 70’s and 80’s was my goal to be a radio DJ because of my disability Cerebral Palsy I used to stutter. Yes, people like teachers, some family members, friends and counselor all laughed about the goal of being on the radio. Here is my story of my dream to be on the radio from 1980’s WCCC 106.9 FM Hartford, CT. to today with Poor Magazine’s KEXU 96.1 FM East Oakland, CA..
