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Beautiful to broken elevator to bedbugs: My 17 years at Acton Courtyard Apartment Complex April 25, 2021 Leroy F. Moore Jr., pictured here with POOR Magazine’s Tiny Gray-Garcia, has lived in the Acton Courtyard Apartments in Berkeley for 17 years, experiencing the same difficulties disabled people report facing due to neglect of subsidized housing all over the country, from broken elevators to bedbugs. – Photo: San Francisco State University by Leroy F. Moore Jr. It was 2004-05 when I saw Acton Courtyard go up, because I lived next door in a small studio and saw an empty lot grow into a beautiful, state-of-the-art, large apartment complex. I was excited for a chance to go from a studio that was so small I had to go outside to change my mind. ....
I had to create my mirror and now it is an international reflection as a Black disabled person through my activism that helped create organizations from DisabilityAdvocatesofMinorities.org with Gary N Gray in the 1990s to Sins Invalid with Patty Berne in early 2000s to the National Black Disability Coalition in 2000s with Jan Dunham to Krip-Hop Nation in mid-2000s with Keith Jones & Rob DA Noize Temple. These organizations also forced Black History Month to open its doors to Black disabled history from many Black disabled/Deaf artists and activists. From the streets to social networks, Black disabled people have changed the framework in art, music, activism, school curriculum etc., with Harriet Tubman Collective, Donna R. Walton s Divas with Disabilities, Black Disabled Creatives by Jillian Mercado, and many more. Through social media, Krip-Hop Nation has many chapters around the world and has traveled to the U.K., South Africa, and Toronto. Disabled people have used and wo ....
I had to create my mirror and now it is an international reflection as a Black disabled person through my activism that helped create organizations from DisabilityAdvocatesofMinorities.org with Gary N Gray in the 1990s to Sins Invalid with Patty Berne in early 2000s to the National Black Disability Coalition in 2000s with Jan Dunham to Krip-Hop Nation in mid-2000s with Keith Jones & Rob DA Noize Temple. These organizations also forced Black History Month to open its doors to Black disabled history from many Black disabled/Deaf artists and activists. From the streets to social networks, Black disabled people have changed the framework in art, music, activism, school curriculum etc., with Harriet Tubman Collective, Donna R. Walton s Divas with Disabilities, Black Disabled Creatives by Jillian Mercado, and many more. Through social media, Krip-Hop Nation has many chapters around the world and has traveled to the U.K., South Africa, and Toronto. Disabled people have used and wo ....