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He was killed with three others when their small airplane crashed after takeoff near Nairobi, Kenya.
The work is a tribute to the late photographer and self-taught pianist Gordon Parks, who duets with Mayfield on track 9 ("Wind Song").
His book about his experiences was published in 1853, adapted in 1984 as a PBS TV movie directed by Gordon Parks and again in 2013 as a feature-length film directed by Steve McQueen starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.
In June 2001, OEBS presented a special concert entitled "A Tribute to Gordon Parks" in collaboration with the Oakland Museum of California on the eve of the opening of a national touring exhibit of Mr. Parks' work.
William Worthy, along with actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, writers James Baldwin, Julian Mayfield and John Killens, poets Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez and Leroi Jones, historian John Henrik Clarke, and photojournalist Gordon Parks was one of the most important political allies of Malcolm X.