America shall be! The poem is not from 1963, however, ... “Let America Be America Again” suggests that particular exclusions can give rise to new universal visions of freedom and equality for ...

That line comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again," first published in Esquire in 1936. It's a long poem (which you can read in full here), that captures the wide swath of ...

When the Democratic National Convention opens this week in Boston, presumptive nominee John Kerry will brandish the words, "Let America be America again!" from the poem of the same name by the ...

O, let America be America again—The land that never has been yet—And yet must be—the land where every man is free.The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—Who ...

“Let America Be America Again” (1936) Inspiration and Themes: Hughes wrote “Let America Be America Again” during the Great ...

In 1935, poet and renowned figure of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes wrote the poem “Let America Be America Again.” He focuses on the American dream and the near impossibility of many to attain ...

As Chatterbox noted in the earlier column, “Let America be America again” comes from a poem published in 1938 by the Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes. But Hughes intended the line ...

In his poem “ Let America Be America Again, ” first published in Esquire magazine in 1936 and with a title that today seems like a strange pre-echo of Trump’s campaign slogan, ...

“Let America Be America Again,” you may have noticed, is not one of Hughes’ better efforts. Like a lot of poetry written during the Great Depression, it’s didactic and influenced by naive ...