“Whitey on the Moon”
Gil Scott-Heron - “Whitey on the Moon”
Related Lessons
lesson:
Debating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Social Studies/History
What was NASA’s Apollo program and why was it controversial?
Related People
people:
Gil Scott-Heron
(1949 – 2011) Acclaimed as a godfather of Rap and Soul Jazz, musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron forged a radicalized vision of the world with deep roots in the Black Power movements of the late 1960s. He came to prominence in the early 1970s, most notably with “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” a provocative 1970 poem from his debut album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox that gave a militant voice to America’s ghetto street culture. Scott-Heron also made a string of albums with keyboardist Brian Jackson that influenced the “neo Soul” movement of the 1990s, as represented by Erykah Badu,...