Day 17: (Black History Month Day 5): Leroy Moore, Jr. “It’s also important to talk about how special education really isn’t a solution in the first place. That it’s always been a place to send people to [screw] them out of the school system, the job market and society in general.”

Required reading in links.

HuffPost interview

Disability Liberated

Sins Invalid

His review of Black and Deaf in America

Twitter

Review of his book

Poem “I’m the First, Please!”

Interview

His articles from Poor Magazine

His poem “Black, Blind, and Beautiful”

For Black History Month I’m collaborating with the brilliant photographer William Patrick Butler, over at his blog. Check it out for his take on today’s post. Also, check out his photography.