On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of injustice as an “island of poverty in a vast ocean of material prosperity.” He spoke of an unfulfilled American promise regarding “the riches of ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes’ poetic ...