
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.
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.
In his last and least known book, James Baldwin demonstrates how the Atlanta Child Murders were not an aberration but rather evidence of the failures of integration, the growing divide between the Black poor and the middle classes, and the need to claim the dead as our own.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
receives acclaim and suppression in equal measure, proving that unapologetically centering Blackness in literature is still controversial in the United States.
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