Gil Scott Heron

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How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day

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African-American icons we lost in 2011

SLIDESHOW – We gained so much in 2011 and now is the time to remember those that we lost this year…
/ December 29, 2011
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Gil Scott-Heron was more than the 'Godfather of Rap'

OPINION – The irony is that Heron took great pains to distance himself from many of the rap artists that purportedly were influenced by him…
/ May 29, 2011
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Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) – The author of the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” — which helped pioneer sounds that would fuse to become rap — has died in New York City…
/ May 27, 2011