When Gilbert “Gil” Scott-Heron was offered a lot of money to perform in Tel Aviv on May 25, 2010, he was asked by pro-Palestinian activists not to support the Zionist form of apartheid that was just ...

Toward the end of Resurrection, the documentary about Tupac Shakur, there is a striking quote. Normally I’d Google it and pull it word-for-word, but I’m not going to. It went something like: “I may ...

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and musician who was a primary influence for generations of hip-hop artists, died on May 27 at the age of 62. Scott-Heron has been called "the Godfather of Hip Hop music," ...

is old. For those born in the 1980s, you might have heard his “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” for the first time in a Nike commercial, which is about as silly as discovering “Born to Run” ...

This morning, DiS is waking up to our Twitter feed and Facebook dashboard full of tributes to the legendary poet, author, activist and one of the key progenitors of ...

Kanye West paid tribute to the late Gil-Scott Heron at a memorial service at Harlem's Riverside Church last night. The rapper, dressed in head-to-toe black and wearing sunglasses, sang a poignant ...