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Slate.com A festive way to make ends meet before the first of the month.
Langston Hughes' Collection of Harlem Rent Party Advertisements
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These cards, collected by Langston Hughes and held with his papers in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, advertised “rent parties” to be h ...
108 months ago
The York Union FREE tickets now live for YU's launch event of the 2016-17 academic year. Come down for what will be an evening of great insight from VICE News's very own Henry Langston. We look forward to seeing you there. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iraq-what-n Read more ... ext-with-vices-harry-langston-tickets-28290805561
Iraq: What Next? with VICE's Harry Langston
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Iraq has experienced continuous conflict since the First Gulf War in 1990. It was hoped that the second US led invasion in 2003 would bring democracy and stability to the country after Saddam Hussein was deposed. The exact opposite has happened. Afte Read more ... r the ousting of Saddam, the Shia population, who…
114 months ago
CNNMoney Ivy still grows on the front of Langston Hughes' home in Harlem. There aren't many houses like it left in New York City. Real estate agents estimate it's worth over $3 million. http://cnnmon.ie/2bFp22z
115 months ago
CNNMoney Soon poetry and music will fill the Harlem home of legendary poet Langston Hughes again. http://cnnmon.ie/2bHE9bx
115 months ago
CNN Artists in New York City are trying to save the $3 million home of Langston Hughes, one of America's great writers and hero of the Harlem Renaissance.
The battle to save Langston Hughes' home from gentrification
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Langston Hughes' Harlem home has shot up in value in recent years. A group of writers is raising money to save it from being turned into condos or coffee shops.
115 months ago
CNNMoney Artists in New York City are trying to save the $3 million home of Langston Hughes, one of America's great writers and hero of the Harlem Renaissance. http://cnnmon.ie/2biSL3C
115 months ago
Jezebel Welcome to the world, Langston Attickus Dolezal.
Langston Hughes Estate Rep Thinks Rachel Dolezal's Baby Name Makes Sense
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Confused black person Rachel Dolezal had the brilliant audacity to name her baby boy Langston Attickus Dolezal, after the poet Langston Hughes. She has the approval of at least one representative of the Hughes estate.
121 months ago
TheRoot.com Happy Birthday to Langston Hughes, the Poet Laureate of the Negro Race who expertly captured the black experience in words. In 1958, "The 7 O' Clock Show" host, BobQuintrell had invited Hughes on to recite his poem, "The Weary Blues" (1925) to jazz a Read more ... ccompaniment with the Doug Parker Band.
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122 months ago
VICE News Everything was fine, until it wasn't.
How Football Pulled The Trigger: Zack Langston's Family Reflects On His Tragically Short Life
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Former Division II football player Zack Langston died at age 26 with CTE.
123 months ago
Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y "I like the story of their interaction because it shows black historical figures as simply working people trying to find their way. It’s a rarely told, or referenced, story about Woodson and Hughes...it’s about the intersection of two very differ Read more ... ent people, a young man and a middle-aged man, who were independent black thinkers: unafraid to set their own determined paths, each with his own goals and objectives, damning all torpedoes."
TheRoot.com discusses one of Langston Hughes's jobs as a young man: http://bit.ly/1EnB3ks
(Excited for the dramatic reading of Young Man Langston in just over a week! http://bit.ly/1CM7Hiv)
That Time Carter G. Woodson Hired Langston Hughes for His 1st Real Job
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A little-known connection between two leading figures in African-American history ends with a discovery by Langston Hughes that he’s not cut out for a 9-to-5 life.
134 months ago