Linton Kwesi Johnson

Jamaican-born Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) moved to London when he was 11 and settled with his mother in the largely black West Indian neighborhood of Brixton, an area that would inspire him to become every bit the eye-opening ghetto chronicler for blacks in '70s London as Public Enemy and N.W.A were for their respective 'hoods in New York City and Los Angeles several years later.

Already politic...