Langston Hughes posts
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
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
TheRoot.com The writers are rushing before it is too late to save this piece of history.
Black Writers Rally To Save Langston Hughes’ Home
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The home occupied by one of the great leaders of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, still stands on 127th Street in Harlem today. Hughes used the top floor of the home as his workroom from 19…
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
The New Yorker In 1952, Langston Hughes answered questions as part of an investigation into the blacklisting of writers in the radio and TV industries.
Blacklisted from Birth: A Letter from Langston Hughes
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In a 1952 letter about anti-Communist campaigns against writers, Hughes focussed on those who struggled “not due to being red but due to being...
133 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
NPR "In all my life I have never been free, " Hughes writes in one letter from 1930. "I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing."
Tumultuous Relationships, But Not Much Gossip, In Langston Hughes' Letters
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Poet Langston Hughes was also an "inveterate letter writer," says the co-editor of a new compilation of his correspondence. But if you're hoping to find profound love letters, you'll be disappointed.
134 months ago
HuffPost Arts & Culture "So far in this world, only my writing has been my own, to do when I wanted to do it, to finish only when I felt that it was finished, to put it aside or discard it completely if I chose."
Langston Hughes: "In All My Life I Have Never Been Free"
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The following is an excerpt from The Letters of Langston Hughes, a collection of correspondences between the author and his loved ones and contemporaries. In this particular letter, Hughes eloquently describes the freedom he experiences when writing. Read more ... ...
134 months ago