(Above) Gil accompanied by Kim Jordan during the first of two sets at SOBs on June 10, 2009.
(L-R) Current Du Bois doctoral student Don Geesling, who is the author of an M.A. thesis on Heron, and ’07 Ph.D. graduate of the Du Bois Department, W.S. Tkweme, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville, are at SOBs for the concert.
See W. S Tkweme, “Vindicating karma: Jazz and the Black Arts movement” (January 1, 2007). Electronic Doctoral Dissertations for UMass Amherst.
See Don’s interviewwith Gil, “An American Griot: Gil Scott-Heron with Don Geesling,” in The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture (Nov. 2007).
See also my interview with the Minister of Information: “Giving Back to the Community!” Interview with Gil Scott-Heron, February 1995, Gaither Reporter (1996)
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275741
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/11/express/an-american-griot-gil-scott-heron-with-d
http://works.bepress.com/shabazz_a/3