An undated photo provided by the director Herbert Danska shows the Original Last Poets, as they were billed, in the 1970 film “Right On!”: from left, Gylan Kain, Felipe Luciano and David Nelson. Kain, a Harlem-born poet and performance artist who was a founder of the Last Poets, the spoken-word collective that laid a foundation for rap music starting in the late 1960s, died on Feb. 7, 2024, in Lelystad, the Netherlands. He was 81. (Herbert Danska, via Museum of Modern Art via The New York Times)