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10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes ... by extension, the heart of America itself. Hughes’s work is a reflection of his time, ...
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Columbia’s Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes
On a miserably wet evening seven months after the death of Langston Hughes, we sat ... and hurried to the microphone. “I am here partly as a way of saying for Columbia that we owe some apologies ...
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Langston Hughes on Trial
In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...
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More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
Hughes’ desire to write “Black Nativity” was his attempt to reclaim the story of Jesus’ birth for African Americans – to show the son of God, the ultimate salvation, emerging from the Black community.
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More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement.