In this episode BDMT members, Leroy Keith and Lateef talk about their visions and goals for the new year. They also discuss the lack of proper disability media representation and the future launching of their platform, “Da Channel”.
In this episode of BDMT we talk to Tempitope Okupe of Nigeria and Ronnie Ronnie Muwanga of Uganda about their experiences living in their countries as Black Disabled men. Bios: Temiope is a Mandela Washington Fellow who holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is a fellow of The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development in the United Kingdom. Temitope is a program coordinator at the Community Development Links Initiative. Temitope leads the organization’s special needs empowerment team, with over seven years of experience in community development. He has provided capacity building and mentorship to children and young adults with special needs in communities. A motivational speaker and disability rights advocate, he has been actively involved in the disability rights movements as well as with various development organizations that promote disability rights and address empowerment equality, accessibility, and opportunity concerns around the world.
Opening theme song: “Story Neva Been Told” By Keith Jones and Leroy Moore.
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In this episode, BDMT discusses the entertainment industry’s disability inclusion policy and its effectiveness in including disabled people so that they can be more pervasive in the media landscape.
Opening theme song: “Story Neva Been Told” By Keith Jones and Leroy Moore.
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In this episode, BDMT tackles why black men become disabled and die in the Hip Hop industry. We have an insightful discussion of how racism and patriarchy are having ill effects on black men and black women’s health.
Opening theme song: “Story Neva Been Told” By Keith Jones and Leroy Moore.
In this episode, a couple of months before the election BDMT discusses what the election means to black disabled people, plus they discuss how the police murder of black and brown disabled people affects the disabled community.
Opening theme song: “Story Neva Been Told” By Keith Jones and Leroy Moore.
Leroy Moore sat down with another Black disabled activist, Dustin Gibson, to talk about his work around freeing people from group homes, jails, and his activism around police brutality. Plus, we talk about how the Black community talks about disability without using the term disability and also his ideas around forming political education among Black disabled people. We also talk about art and about the appropriation of Disability Justice by academia and White people.
Opening theme song: “Story Neva Been Told” By Keith Jones and Leroy Moore.
Black Disabled Men Talk is a podcast where four black men discuss precinct social and political issues of the day. The four black men on this podcast are Leroy Moore, Keith Jones, Lateef McLeod, and Ottis Smith. In this video, we discuss COVID & Police Brutality on Black disabled community especially Black Disabled men. Today we have Keith Jones, Lateef McLeod & Leroy Moore on the episode. The video is captioned!
Opening theme song: “Story Neva Been Told” By Keith Jones and Leroy Moore.
In this episode of Black Disabled Men Talk (4/2020) Leroy Moore, Keith Jones, Ottis Smith, and Lateef McLeod Four Black Disabled Activists/Artists discuss what is Black Ableism, what is the difference of being disabled versus politically disabled but we start out with our thoughts of Chuck D firing Flavor Flav from Public Enemy. Video is captioned by Cheryl Green
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