Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While others lauded the lunar landing as a “giant leap for mankind,” Scott-Heron lamented the Moon trip in his lyrical litany. He ...

Award-winning performance artist Gia Scott-Heron, daughter of Lifetime Grammy Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, will perform selections from Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology at the one-night-only benefit “FROM ...

Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology delves deep into Scott-Heron's artistic genius, highlighting his innovative fusion of jazz, blues, and spoken word. Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology shares the life and music of ...

What does it take to be a griot? According to the dictionary, griots are a 'member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or ...

How this ancient instrument played its way into popular American Music. By John White, Lynn Levy, Diane Wong and Giovanni Russonello The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it ...

Gil Scott Heron is an iconic poet, author and musician whose spoken-word pieces “The Bottle” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” led to public and critical acclaim throughout the ’70s and early ...

On a rainy Sunday night last fall, Detective William Velasquez and Michael Pardo, two undercover cops from the Northern Manhattan Initiative, a special NYPD narcotics task force, were making ...

Gil Scott-Heron's record label manager has penned a tribute to the musician. Scott-Heron passed away in a New York hospital yesterday at the age of 62 after a reported illness. Richard Russell, who is ...

Not long after the July 20, 1969, Moon landing, Gil Scott-Heron – a poet hailed as the “Godfather of Rap” – released a scathingly critical song called “Whitey on the Moon.” While others lauded the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) While others lauded the lunar landing as a “giant leap for mankind,” Scott-Heron ...

Not long after the July 20, 1969, Moon landing, Gil Scott-Heron – a poet hailed as the “Godfather of Rap” – released a scathingly critical song called “Whitey on the Moon.” While others lauded the ...