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Dorothy Parker wanted to call her (unwritten) autobiography Mongrel, presumably reflecting her Wasp-Jewish heritage. Douglas applies the word to the polyglot nature of the new culture, which was profoundly influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Writers like Langston Hughes who settled in and around Strivers Row in Upper Manhattan gave distinctive voice to the aspirations of American blacks. "Aframerican" musicians like Duke Ellington entertained white audiences at Harlem's Cotton Club with an exotic new idiom, jazz, that became one of America's enduring gifts to the world...
...address to the congregation. Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown, pastor of Cambridge's Union Baptist Church, recalled the famous words of poet Langston Hughes, asking "What happens to a dream deferred...
...Sometimes the caller may feel helpless and frustrated, when a person feels they cannot be helped," Langston says...
ECHO Co-Director Amy E. Langston '96 says the organization's 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. hotline receives about five or six calls a week...
...couple of decades later, it was the "Harlem Renaissance" that would lay the best-publicized claim to the word. This highly self-conscious movement was born largely through the midwifery of Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes scholar. Writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset and Zora Neale Hurston -- the fundaments of the black literary canon today -- came of age at this time, leading the New York Herald Tribune to announce in 1925 that America was "on the edge, if not already in the midst, of what might not improperly be called a Negro renaissance...