• Black parents called it out in the late 1970’s
• Let’s go back to the work of Dr. Sylvia Walker in the 1970’s
• She founded the Center for the Study of Handicapped Children and Youth at Howard University in 1975
• On the streets of Atlanta with Disability In Action led by Rev. Calvin Peterson
• Freeing their sons and daughters from warehouse institution in New York
• On the streets with the Brown Berets led by Willie Mae Goodman
• The 1970’s the century of Black disabled uprising
• Then came Brad Lomax but he wasn’t alone
• Black disabled brothers and sisters in the Bay
• Let’s say their names – Chuck Johnson, Gary Norris Gray, Don Galloway,
• Johnnie Lacy, Ron Washington, Dennis Billups and Joyce Ardell Jackson to name a few
• On stage were Black women of the Wry Crips from 1985
• Afi-Tiombe Kambon, Giovana Giscome, Ciara Lovelace & Marie Jenkins
• Here comes Lee Williams at the Berkeley Rep as Porgy
• At a Black Radio station, KPOO was Brigardo Groves
• On the big screen and in the Bayview Newspaper was Kiilu Nyasha
• The media and cultural arm of Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization’s (DAMO) aka New Voices Disabled Poets & Artists of Color 1998
• The MooreGray Matter on Berkeley Community Media early 2000’s
• Black parents came back in the Bay with Harambee Educational Council 2000
• On the East Coast Jane Dunhamn took it nationally with the National Black Disability Coalition. (NBDC) in 2000
• Back on the streets of Berkeley spitting his Black Panther poetry from his wheelchair, Malcolm Samuel, AKA Brother Malcolm
• Spoke the truth on his 2002 CD, CD entitled Brother Malcolm Speaks
• Blues poetry on KPFA DJ Avotcja
• Continuing with cultural activism with the birth of Krip-Hop Nation in 2002
• Sins Invalid started in 2005
• Two disabled African tour, first called A Journey to the South Tour 2016
• Second, KHN’s Disabled African Musicians Bay Area Tour 2019
• Created a term to amplify Afro disabled people in the Afro diaspora under Afro-Krip 2019
• 2019 a group of Black disabled men launched a broadcast called Black Disabled Men Talk. Two of the original members are bringing Black Disabled Men Talk back with new members for a one time decision or will it lead to something more under a new name, Black Disabled Men Talk Returns 2025
• Krip-Hop Nation present From John Langton Gwaltney’s The Dissenters to Krip-Hop Theory for “Anthropology and the Black Experience was accepted for the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) 2025 spring conference, “Anthropology and the Black Experience,” in Dakar, West Africa
• The future 2027 Krip-Hop Institute

To Be Continued by the next generation.