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...Gevisser's treatment, Mbeki emerges as a tragic figure. The book's title refers to a Langston Hughes poem that Mbeki, warning of growing popular anger at persistent inequalities in postapartheid South Africa, quoted before Parliament in 1998: "What happens to a dream deferred? It explodes." But Mbeki has been unable to bridge the divide, and that failure has bolstered support for the earthy populist Zuma...
...Langston Hughes is naked in front...
Rather, actor Ben Ellison, portraying Hughes in the 1988 film essay “Looking for Langston,” is laying nude in the film’s poster with Matthew Baidoo, who plays Hughes’ lover, James Baldwin. They are intertwined in a seemingly post-coital embrace, an image emblematic of the rest of the art on exhibition at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...
...He’s remembering Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, but also sort of projecting his contemporary stance on that,” says Cheek...
...campaign trail, Williams has some help from manager Jack Menken (Christopher Walken) and joke-turned-speech writer Eddie Langston (acerbic standup comic Lewis Black), who, despite their pitch-perfect performances largely sing backup to their leading...