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...concluded his speech by quoting from a poem by Langston Hughes, "To save the dream for one, is to save the dream for all." Higginbotham received a standing ovation...
MULE BONE. Famed among scholars of black literature as an intriguing might- have-been, this 1930 collaboration between Harlem poet Langston Hughes and fiction writer Zora Neale Hurston needed 61 years, and further tinkering, to make it to Broadway. The result, a fable set in a small Florida town, is vibrantly acted and full of charm, its dialectal richness enhanced by twangy Taj Mahal songs...
Yolanda Raddle, a Dumas parent, marvels that her daughter Danielle, 6, can recite two poems by Langston Hughes, the gifted black writer. "I never heard of him in high school," she says. Dumas has already made a difference...
...quite fulfilled. While I could read anything during my free time, the scope of the novels I read for academic purposes was severely limited. I frequently found myself asking teachers to make an exception so that I could do outside reading projects on the likes of Baldwin, Hurston or Langston Hughes. I could connect personally with their characters. These people were Black like me. I wanted the opportunity to be captivated by the stories of my people who were speaking from a Black perspective about my history...
...Langston Hughes once wrote...