Black Factory

Gil Scott-Heron, in the midst of the civil rights and “Black Power” movements, had made a revolution in the world of literature and culture with the sentence “The revolution will not be televised”. Known for his identities as a poet, musician, writer and activist, Scott-Heron tells a story in Negro Factory where he puts forward a blend of all his adjectives.

Negro Factory is about the student uprisings that took place at a university in Virginia in the 1960s. On the one hand, the Sutton University administration, which did not listen to the students’ demands, on the other hand, the Student Union, which tried to handle things calmly, and on the other hand, a new student formation that had taken extreme actions - with the conflict of these three actors, events enter a bitter, irreversible path. In Negro Factory, Gil Scott-Heron presents a social panorama through issues of action and inaction, the search for rights and injustice.

“For twenty years, Gil Scott-Heron has revealed human conditions that most of us have preferred to forget.”

-The Washington Post-

“This novel contains elements unique to Scott-Heron’s albums: Powerful social criticism, realistic street images and a disturbing satire, but also sensitivity, romance and sensuality.”

-The Independent-

(From the Promotion Bulletin)