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A Couple Gives Us A Superhero that Doesn’t Leave His Bed Physically, Graphic Novel: RECALL & GIVEN

Krip-Hop Nation: Thank you for agreeing to be interview. This comic book, RECALL AND GIIVEN, is really about your relationship tell us how did you all meet and the turning points in this book.

In the White House, In the Community & Internationally, Ola Ojewumi, Give Her Views

Leroy F. Moore Jr.: You are a journalist, disability activist and Founder of ASCEND tell us why, when you enter these fields and some work that came out of them.

Magical Negro: From The Green Mile to Get Out: Black, Disability & Hollywood

The Magical Negro is a trope created by white people; the character is typically but not always "in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint", often a janitor or prisoner.The character often has no past but simply appears one day to help the white protagonist.

Proposed budget cuts threaten millions of HUD subsidized low-income renters

Oakland - Tenant activists are urging low-income renters in HUD’s (Department of Housing and Urban Development) subsidized housing programs to contact their representatives during February 18 - February 26, to speak up in support of HUD’s subsidized housing programs. Massive budget cuts to the federal government are being proposed ranging from $6 trillion, to over $10 trillion during the next ten years.

It's A..... I Need My..... (Poem)

I need my walker

I can’t hear

I can’t breathe

I need my asthma inhaler

Dawan Gordon dragged like sack of potatoes

Daniel Harris tried to communicate with his hands

Eric Garner shouted 13 times

Anthony D. Clark gasped for air

It’s a toy truck

It’s a clock

It’s a colostomy bag

It’s sign lanuage

Twenty-One Black Disabled Trivia In Black History Month (Ongoing Trivia List, Please Make Yours)

1) This slave rescued other slaves and brought them to freedom. Who is she? What was her disability?

2) This famous soul singer in 1997 he wrote a book called Truly Blessed, about his life before and after his accident. Who is he?

3) This African American is the first deaf professional baseball player. Who is he?

4) This Black actor is an inspirational speaker who played in Boyz N in the Hood. Who is he?

Uncle & Nephew Teams Up To Take On Superhero, DMC #1 (Review)

My nephew, Tiburcio Garcia, 13 year old and lover of all kinds of books especially comic books and I, a lover of Hip-Hop had an honor not only to review D.M.C. first comic book but have been in contact with this living ledgend. Krip-Hop Nation/Poor Magazine interviewed D.M.C in early Jan/17. Now uncle & nephew of Poor Magazine teams up for a review of D.M.C. first comic book DMC #1

DMC is the balance By Tiburcio Garcia, 13, POOR Magazine Youth skola

20 Years of Work, Looking Back From 1996 Up To Today

As Poor Magazine & Krip-Hop Nation celebrate their anniversay, Poor Magazine- 21 years & Krip-Hop Nation - 10 years, I thought it was a great time to look back of my work in the Bay Area since 1996. I moved from CT/NY to SF, CA in 1991. This is not to blow air in my head but to take time to track my work and give Black/Brown disabled youth a piece of plateform and mirror to build on or to make their own way.

The Nuclear Lunch

Since my heart attack I have been having trouble breathing. I was used to walking unlimited 3-4 miles a day. Now I can’t walk a half a block without stopping. My heart attack was 2 years ago.Today I had a Nuclear Stress Test. Let me explain what a Nuclear Stress Test is: Nuclear Stress Test.

10 years 2007-2017 The Best of Krip-Hop Nation. Happy B. Day KHN

Press Release

January/2017

Krip-Hop Nation Tenth Anniversary CD Leroy F. Moore Jr.