Gil Scott-Heron: “Closer to Langston Hughes than Huey Newton”
The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.
Steve Conn is co-editor of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University.
The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.
For one day in June 1963 Detroit was the center of the civil rights movement.
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