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Leroy Moore of Krip-Hop Nation will be in Germany & Denmark to meet with some Krip-Hop artists and sit down with co/founder of Mcees With Disabilities for a CD project and to cover WOMEX Music Festival in Denmark. (Moore is pictured with Chuck D.)
Krip-Hop will be at Temple University in Philadelphia on Nov. 18 then off to the City University of New York (CUNY).
Rob DA Noize Temple will be speaking on the evolution of Krip Hop, Krip Hop Nation, and the disability rights movement Oct. 21, 7-8:30 p.m. at NYU's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square, South Room 602. Rob Da Noize will perform Oct. 30 7-11 p.m. at NYU's Diva Ball Celebration at NYU's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South E&L Auditorium, 4th floor.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From Krip-Hop Nation's Leroy Moore:
