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Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they...
Author Hughes is well qualified to speak for the "bad New Negroes," being himself prominent among them. Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew. Readers of the Pittsburgh Courier looked forward to its next issue in which Mr. Hughes was to continue his criticism of Negroes who "still think that white people are better than colored people...
Such was the substance of an interview obtained last week with Singer Hayes by a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly). With regard to his future activities in behalf of "Angelmo," Singer Hayes was quoted as saying "What concertizing I do next season will be in regions where I have never sang...
...infamous attack, a gross distortion," replied the Pittsburgh Courier, famed Negro weekly newspaper, as its correspondent started an anti-Graphic movement in Manhattan last week. Negroes object to having their hero and educator bandied about in the columns of a pornographic sheetlet...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...