Langston Hughes

Beautiful in Their Resilience: Youth Voices of Detroit, Revealed

Terry Blackhawk | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Langston Hughes, Michigan Youth Arts Festival, Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Slam, Focus:HOPE, Scott Hocking, Detroit Revealed, Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University, Vievee Francis, Bill Harris, Citywide Poets, InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Youth Poetry, Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Detroit Youth Poetry, Desiree Cooper, Detroit News

I have long felt that our students have a somewhat different relationship to their city than children in other parts of the country, that they take Detroit as their muse and that the city actually becomes a character in their work.

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John 3: Light from Darkness from Langston Hughes poem "The Negro"

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Langston Hughes, Gospel of John, Nicodemus, Christianity, Black Voices News

The Gospel lesson last Sunday comes from John, Chapter 3 -- the ultimate passage from the Bible on the need to have a personal relationship with God t...

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'I Thought You Were Black': Teacher Tells Student To Read Poem 'Blacker'

Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Falls Church Virginia, George C. Marshall High School, Video, High Schools, Black Students, Virginia Schools, Racial Sensitivity, Virginia High Schools, Students, Racism in Schools, Racist Virginia Teacher Langston Hughes, Jordan Shumate, George C Marshall High School, Marilyn Bart, Langston Hughes, Marshall High School Virginia, Marshall High School, Education News

A Virginia high school English teacher is under investigation for allegedly asking the only black student in the class to read a poem in a "blacker" m...

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Savoring Harlem: Watching the New Harlem Renaissance Come Alive

Marcus Samuelsson | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Harlem, Savoring Harlem, Red Rooster Harlem, Marcus Samuelsson, Food Network, Video, Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance, New Harlem Renaissance, Food News

Harlem is alive and thriving, more so now than ever before, and in many cases food is at the center of Harlem's new economic growth. Within the midst of great history and cultural diversity lies a food side of Harlem just waiting to be discovered by those foodies who seek it.

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Is A Newspaper Column Literature?

Errol Louis | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Newspapers, Newspaper Columns, Literature, New York Sun, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Books News

It's only a matter of time before the newspaper column takes its rightful place as a recognized and respected form of literature, every bit as vital as its more celebrated cousins, the short story and the novel.

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Major Museum Hosts Gay Marriage-Themed Exhibition

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Langston Hughes, John Ashbery, Neal Benezra, Transgender, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Sfmoma, Lesbian, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober, D-L Alvarez, Gay, The Air We Breathe, Ann Waldman, Simon Jufiwara, Allison Smith, Marriage Equality, Arts News

Art museums are so often understood as sanctuaries in which to preserve the past, so it's rare to experience a museum show instead devoted to understa...

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Hottest Authors: 12 We'd Love To Be Haunted By

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Attractive Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Sexy Authors, Sexy Halloween, Sylvia Plath, Frankenstein, Chekov, Hot Authors, Jack London, Books News

Ghosts and books go hand-in-hand. Be it William Shakespeare or Stephen King, writers have long been penning poltergeists. While most literary ghosts a...

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Looking for the Dream of America

Michael Meade, D.H.L. | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Dream of America, America, Occupy Wall Street, Young People, Employment, Occupy Movement, American Dream, Politics News

Occupy means "to keep and hold, to fill, to employ." It is high time to occupy America again; not the America of partisan politics and corporate influence; but the America that can hold and keep alive the dreams of its young people.

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Politics And The Misuse Of Langston Hughes

Wallace Best, Ph.D. | Posted 12.24.2011

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For Santorum and Perry to invoke Langston Hughes in their bids for the Republican presidential nomination is a disheartening misuse of the poet.

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Are Students Prepared For 21st Century Jobs?

Alan Singer | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Economy, Jobs, McDonald's, Paul Krugman, Teachers, Teaching, Barack Obama, Global Workplace, Workplace, Globalization, State of the Union 2011, State of the Union Address, Education News

If President Obama is right about the importance of education for improving national competitiveness, you would expect teaching to be a 21st century growth industry.

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Famous Authors And Their Typewriters

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, George Orwell, Typewriters, Sylvia Plath, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Authors Typewriters, Marlon Brando, Bob Dylan, Books News

There’s something magical about catching a glimpse of one of your favorite authors at work – even a photo of the epic event can send an anxious th...

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Hold Fast to King's Dream

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, John Conyers, John McCain, Education, Mlk, Prisons, Barack Obama, King, Pew Charitable Trust, Declaration of Independence, Martin Luther King, Arkansas, South Carolina, Confederate, Coretta Scott King, Robert E. Lee, Martin Luther King Day, Evan Mecham, Politics News

On April 4, 1968, a shot rang out in the Memphis sky and Martin Luther King Jr. fell silent. But King's message of one America, undivided by race, would not die.

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Remembering Trans Heroine Rita Hester

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

This weekend is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, and many of us will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of their gender identities or gender expressions.

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No More Dreams Deferred

Gabe Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Langston Hughes, We Are America Stories, Social Security, Undocumented Immigrants, We Are America, Immigration, America Dream Act, Undocumented Students, Immigration Reform, Military, College, DREAM Act, Undocumented Workers, Unions, Undocumented, Politics News

I think about the dreams of undocumented youth in this country. I see them in their ROTC uniforms, begging for a chance to serve. I see them, and I worry about another dream deferred.

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PHOTOS: Harlem's Langston Hughes House Finally Sold?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Langston Hughes' famed East Harlem home has been pulled off the market. There's speculationthe house has been sold to a cash buyer for less than its...

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Labor Day Poems

poetryfoundation.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Pinsky, The Poetic Life, Rhina P Espaillat, Philip Levine, Poet, Robert Service, Langston Hughes, Poets, Charles Simic, Lorine Niedecker, Poetry, Books News

The Poetry Foundation By Becca Klaver For the United States' 129th Labor Day, we bring you a variety of poems, podcasts, and articles--some meditate ...

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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The Meaning of Manslaughter?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

The United States has elected its first black president, and yet our struggle for human dignity and mutual respect is hardly over. In the same electio...

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Raoul Abdul, Rodney Leonard and a Great House of New York, in Harlem!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just who is Rodney Leonard, and how has he come to occupy one of handsomest and most comfortable duplex apartments in the city, decorated with a king's ransom worth of African art?

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A Portrait of Deborah Willis

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Photography, Women, Black Photography, Michelle Obama, Photo, Michelle Obama Queen Elizabeth, Women and Work, Women and Body Image, Deborah Willis, Michelle Obama Photos, Blacks, Photograph, African American Photography, Hurricane Katrina, Michelle Obama Queen Elizabeth Hug, African Americans, African-American Photography, Style News

Deborah Willis tells stories through pictures. I wanted to tell her story with her words. We sat down in New York City's Leica Gallery discussing her, her work and the life of art.

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Great Poems for Black History Month

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Black History Month, Elizabeth Alexander, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Nathaniel Mackey, Douglas Kearney, Maya Angelou, Poems for Black History Month, Books News

I humbly offer a brief selection of classic and contemporary poems that explore and celebrate the rich tradition of African-American poetry.

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Brazil Feels The Pain Of Peacekeeping in Haiti

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, George Bush, Drug Cartels, Bill Clinton, Lula, Zilma Arns, Brazil, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Papa Doc, Haiti Earthquake, Un Peacekeepers, Ron Brown, John Kerry, Gilbert Arenas, Ban Ki-Moon, James Taylor, World News

With a presidential vote on the horizon, Brazil's national conscience is getting a strong dose of melancholia generated by non-stop coverage of dead and wounded soldiers coming home from UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti.

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Did The Death Of Communism Take Koestler And Other Literary Figures With It?

The New York Review of Books | Anne Applebaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Communism, Rapist, Koestler, Wwii, Suicide, Nyr, Zionism, Camus, Israel, Cold War, Sartre, Paris, Soviet Union, Books News

Anne Applebaum The New York Review Of Books "Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic" by Michael Scammell, Rando...

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Three Poems For Martin Luther King Day

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King, Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Poetry, Healthy Living News

The nation remembers Martin Luther King on Monday, so let's take a look at three poems that highlight different aspects of the civil rights movement.

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Mad Men: "Wee Small Hours" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Listening to Martin Luther King on the murder of four girls in a Birmingham church, Betty opines that maybe this civil rights thing is premature. But Betty should know that a dream deferred can dry up like a raisin in sun.

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