For Black History Month: Langston Hughes
Posted by Village Poet on February 7th, 2007 at 10:02pm
Langston Hughes was the unofficial poet laureate of Black American life & culture, a radical democrat at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz/blues lyrical poet, humorous storyteller, political playwright,…
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