As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a radical call to action, and a source of healing.

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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was written in response to the spoken-word piece "When the Revolution Comes" by the Black Poets, whose track begins with "When the revolution comes ...