In 1969, pianist Brian Jackson was just 17 years old when he met Gil Scott-Heron at Lincoln University, the HBCU located in southeastern Pennsylvania. Jackson, born and raised in Brooklyn, had already dropped out of classes, depressed by the lack of an Afrocentric curriculum at the school. More @Wikipedia
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