Derrick Gilbert aka Poet D-Knowledge, Dies at 45
November 12, 2015
Writer/Performer Dr. Derrick Gilbert, PhD, a/k/a poet D-Knowledge, lost his battle with liver disease on Sunday morning, November 1, 2015. He was 45. Straddling the worlds of entertainment and academia, Gilbert wrote for the NAACP Image Awards from 1993 to 2001 while earning his Doctorate in Sociology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and teaching at UCLA and UC Berkeley. He originally suggested and helped launch the Image Awards’ Literature categories, which are still an important part of the annual awards competition. His music and poetry CD, “All That and a Bag of Words” was released by Quincy Jones’ Qwest Records/Warner Bros