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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.

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Black 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
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