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...especially musicians not known for fitting into the narrow hip-hop roles of DJ and MC. On Blazing Arrow, songs featured people such as slam poet and activist Saul Williams, Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha and the legendary poet and jazz singer Gil Scott-Heron (most famous for his fiery work, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?...

Author: By William B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blackalicious Shows Off the Gift of Gab | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, or Rage Against the Machine...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Harvard Teaches Conformity | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...same token, the dean said she was responding to student complaints. Minority students on campus took the poster to be offensive, an indication that perhaps many on campus would like to return to the 1950s when, in the words of jazz great Gil Scott-Heron, the movies were in black and white and so was everything else. The distrust is great. But we are reluctant to acknowledge that the distrust is legitimate. Somewhere along the line we have lost patience with the demand for sensitivity, and, as a result, we have become immune to those who feel injured...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson & The Midnight Band--The Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 26- May 2 | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson & The Midnight Band--The Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 26- May 2 | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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