Good Night, Kids: Good Night, Gill
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article “Was there a touch of spring in the air? And did she have a pink dress on? Wasn’t your first love A very precious time? It was predictable that the accolades to the late poet and singer, Gill Scott-Heron, focused on his political commentary and searing insight to the tenor of America’s transitional era of 1960-80. His “We Almost Lost Detroit,” about the partial meltdown at the Fermi nuclear power plant was as valid then as i