Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Bidding Farewell To The Schoolyard Bard
The writer dream hampton recalls how The Last Poets' music, and Jalal Mansur Nuriddin's work in particular, interwove with the lives that surrounded her as a child, in a disappearing Detroit.
On Tuesday evening, the family of Jalal Mansur Nurridin, 74, released a statement describing his death, writing that "Jalal slipped quietly away this evening into the arms of Allah," and asked that we use the last ten days of Ramadan to make for him. Nurridin lead the best-known iteration of the legendary Last Poets, a spoken word and percussionist collective formed on Malcolm X's birthday and that, at its best, embodied the spirit
