Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. is a disabled African American writer, poet, community activist and feminist. Born in Buffalo, NY in 1967, he has lived in CT, NY, MI. He has three sisters and one brother. Leroy was born with Cerebral Palsy.

He has been sharing his perspective on identity, race & disability for the last thirteen years. His work became clear when was in London, England in 1996 where he discovered a Black Disabled Movement which help led to the creation of his lecture series; 'On the Outskirts: Race & Disability. Now Leroy F. Moore Jr. is a consultant on Race & Disability. Leroy also sits on the Idriss Stelley Foundation Board, an organization who reports and advocates against police brutality and Poor Magazine. He has studied, worked and lectured in the field of race and disability in the United States, United Kingdom, Holland, Canada and South Africa. Leroy currently lectures for Speak Out, a national speaker's bureau.

His readings, lectures and workshops are a mixture of personal, historical, political and cultural experiences and the raw reality of being Black and disabled in the U.S. Leroy is one of the leading voices in the field of crimes, police brutality and wrongful incarceration of people with disabilities, and racism in the disabled community. Leroy's poems and articles have appeared in numerous publications. He is also a dedicated researcher and writer of disabled artists in the music industry from Blues to Hip-Hop and has created Black Blind Blues to Krip-Hip-Hop workshops for youth and young adults. He has produced a hip-hop mixtape featuring disabled hip-hop artists around the world, Krip-Hop Mixtape Vol. 1 & 2 (see the Krip-Hop Corner). Leroy has collaborated with The Dancing Tree Inc. on a film based on his writings around themes of sexuality,Forbidden Acts. Leroy is also a Co-Director and Community Relation Person\Artistic Director of Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility. Sins Invalid is performance\film annual event in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leroy also performs with Molotov Mouths: Outspoken Word Troupe that have put together an anthology in 2003 under Manic D Press entitled Molotov Mouths Explosive New Writing and PO' Poets of Poor Magazine, and New Voices: Disabled Poets & Artists of Color. Leroy Moore's book of poetry, Black Disabled Man with Big Mouth & High I.Q. will be published by Gibbs Magazine\Foundation. After witnessing the Black Disabled Movement in London, England, writing for Black newspapers and magazines and being involved with many disabled minorities organizations, Leroy proclaims it's time for the art, stories, poetry and words of disabled people of color to be in bookstores and magazine racks.

His media work includes a syndicated column, Illin-N-Chillin, for Poor Magazine, San Francisco Bayview Newspaper of San Francisco and been published on Gibbs Online Magazine, Amsterdam News, San Francisco Chronicle. He was one of the co-hosts for a radio-show, Pushing Limits, on KPFA Free Speech Radio, Berkeley California for three years and now has a show, Brown Broken Disabled Bodies, on BVHP Village Voice, KPOO and Berkeley Free Radio community radio station in San Francisco and Berkeley, CA. Leroy resides in Berkeley, CA.