Gil Scott-Heron: leader of a revolution you could dance to

He fought the powers that be and paid the price. But he also taught us that politics plus soul equals movementWhen Gil Scott-Heron asked in the mid-70s: "Sister/woman have you heard from Johannesburg?" I hadn't actually. I was too young. Too uninformed, maybe, to know really what was going on. He also told us the news was unreliable. And that the situation of black people in America was not far from that of those who would end up rioting two years later in Soweto.That was important. But what was...

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