American Hero

On February 26th, 1994 we lost one of the most brilliant, thought provoking, controversial voices ever to grace this earthly world of ours, William Melvin Hicks. The word 'genius' gets thrown around a lot now a days. Everyone on the planet is called special or gifted or labeled a genius: it's hard to distinguish one person's thought from another's. But Bill, for better or worse, was as original as