According to The Grio, Actor and poet Craig muMs Grant, who starred in HBO’s Oz and collaborated with the likes of Spike Lee, died on Wednesday. He was 52.
Billed as muMs da Schemer, the name he used during his early slam-poetry years, Grant guested or recurred as Arnold “Poet” Jackson on Oz during its entire 1997-2003 run, appearing in all but seven episodes. His character was a heroin addict who is released from “Emerald City,” only to return after killing a drug dealer. A member of the Homeboys prison gang, the character often recited poems about social and political injustice endured by Black Americans.
No cause of death has been determined yet. LAByrinth Theater Company, of which he was a member, released a statement announcing his passing.
