The civil rights movement was beginning to fade in 1971 when Gil Scott-Heron released “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” his iconic spoken word poem fused with funk. It was an inspirational tune ...

(CNN) -- Gil Scott-Heron, dubbed the “godfather of rap” for his mix of poetry and music, died Friday in New York, his publicist at XL Recordings said. He was 62. It was not immediately known what ...

Gia Scott-Heron will present “The Poetry of Gia and Gil Scott-Heron” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas. She will be first guest of the 2023 spring semester for ...

Although he's been absent from the public consciousness for some time, Gil Scott-Heron hasn't disappeared, nor been silent. He's written and performed recently, but he's also done a couple of stints ...

NEW YORK - Long before Public Enemy urged the need to "Fight the Power" or N.W.A. offered a crude rebuke of the police, Gil Scott-Heron was articulating the rage and the disillusionment of the black ...

Moved by the passing of songwriter/poet Gil Scott Heron, KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole put together 3-hours of originals, collaborations, remixes, interviews, poems, and music made in tribute to Gil from around ...

Within hours of Gil Scott-Heron’s death, the tributes from rap superstars started pouring in. “He influenced all of hip-hop,” said Eminem. “We do what we do and how we do because of you,” said Public ...

This article is part of The Athletic’s series celebrating UK Black History Month. To view the whole collection, click here. The musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron once observed that the “two things ...