Posted inBlack People Civil Rights Movement (1954-68) Deaths (Obituaries) Harlem (Manhattan, NY) Kain, Gylan (1942-2024) Last Poets Nineteen Hundred Sixties Poetry and Poets Rap and Hip-Hop
Gylan Kain, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies at 81
He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, lay a foundation for what was to come.