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LISA MOORE WAS FIRST INTRODUCED to ColorLines while working with Teaching for Change, a multicultural resource center in Washington, D.C. The ColorLines subscription was a popular resource there among teachers.

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"Teachers would check out the magazine, copy articles and then go home and create lesson plans around them," Moore says. She believes the draw to ColorLines for educators stems from the fact that it explores history and politics in a way that other magazines do not. The voices in ColorLines, Moore says, are not "what you find in mainstream media."

Though Moore no longer works with Teaching for Change, she has carried on the tradition of sharing ColorLines articles with friends and family. A New Orleans native, Moore has looked to ColorLines for what she calls the "real coverage" of the aftermath of Katrina. Her network of friends and family, most of whom have not returned to the city, have been tracking the recovery of the Gulf Coast. Moore says that ColorLines has become a part of her Katrina network and she shares and discusses ColorLines coverage of the recovery with her fellow New Orleans natives.

Moore is also the founder and publisher of Red Bone Press, a press dedicated to celebrating the culture of Black lesbians and gay men and facilitating discussions between Black gays and lesbians and the mainstream. Red Bone Press started with Moore's mission to collect the coming-out stories of Black lesbians that became the award-winning anthology Does Your Mama Know. She has been told she "creates synergy," meaning that she connects people with information and "ColorLines is part of that."