Life's Song Set to Poetry Apr 20, 2009
A few of those talented American poets include Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Anne Bradstreet, May Swenson, William Blake, Maya Angelou, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Gwendolyn Brooks. Each of these poets has written poems that capture the essence of historic times and experiences in America s past. (Suite101.com)
Granderson tries to get youth involved Apr 16, 2009
Art -- Kendall Dumas, Langston Hughes Middle School, Detroit; Randy Asahak, Mohegan High School, Macomb Essay -- Sanjay Reddy, West Bloomfield Middle School; Andrew Biter, Riverview High School, Detroit Poetry -- Alex Knight, Sarah Banks Middle School, Walled Lake; Raphael Tramble, Loyola High School, Detroit. is a reporter for MLB.com. (MLB.com -- Detroit Tigers)
Historical interview captivates crowd Apr 14, 2009
Media Credit: Alison PeckKCPL Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Charles Everett Pace as Langston Hughes. Charles Everett Pace convincingly portrayed Langston Hughes Tuesday evening at the Kansas City Public Library Central Branch ... The Langston Hughes interview was the first of three "Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III" events hosted by the library. (University News, MO)
A librarian shares her poetry picks for young and old Apr 13, 2009
The works here span several decades; Langston Hughes explains his inspiration for "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; while Queen Latifah raps in celebration of womanhood in the verse "Ladies First." Every poem in this collection comes to life beautifully when read aloud; let the CD start you off, and you do the rest ... She has selected poems from such classic authors as T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, and even her own mother, writing as Jacqueline Bouvier. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Conservatism Has Much to Offer Black Americans Apr 13, 2009
Zora Neal Hurston (1891-1960), Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), and Alain Lock (1885-1954) were all gifted conservative black writers from the Harlem Renaissance. Although many people do not think of Martin Luther King as a conservative, he championed many of the same principles as today's black conservatives, arguing for quality education, personal integrity, public morality, equal treatment under the law, and a colorblind society. (Human Events Online)
Mercyhurst Literary Fest to feature Sanchez, Hazo Apr 12, 2009
She has earned numerous awards, including the 1985 American Book Award for "Homegirls and Handgrenades" and the 1999 Langston Hughes Poetry Award. "Does Your House Have Lions?" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Africa: Comment & Analysis Apr 11, 2009
It led to the Harlem Renaissance, marked by authors and poets like Langston Hughes, Richard Right, Claude McKay, and Lena Horne. As a rallying ideology Pan-Africanism defined and gave life to race-based (and class-based) struggles. (allAfrica.com)
'Triangular Road' is a memoir of creative and personal self-discovery Apr 6, 2009
In 1965, Marshall had two books to her credit - her semi-autobiographical first novel and "Soul Clap Hands and Sing" a short story collection -- when the great Langston Hughes asked Marshall and another young writer to accompany him on a US State Department-sponsored cultural tour across Europe. The chapter "Homage to Mr. Hughes" is a delight, and Marshall's recollections about watching Hughes school young black Brits on African-American history and being squired around Paris to underground jazz... (Boston Globe)
After 60 years of wandering, Naomis Song is published Apr 3, 2009
asks Langston Hughes in his 1959 poem. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
San Joaquin Delta College campus may host new high school (5) Apr 2, 2009
In addition to Lodi Unified's Middle College, other area Early College campuses include Benjamin Holt Preparatory Academy and the Langston Hughes Academy in Stockton. Middle College High School, which allows high school students earn an Associate's degree while attending high school, opened on the Delta campus in 2000. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Book roundup: Memoirs Apr 2, 2009
Fans of Marshall's first novel, the 1959 classic Brown Girl, Brownstones, can now follow her through the years, beginning with a State Department tour of Europe with none other than the poet Langston Hughes, who always called her Paul-e. (The e is silent, but who was she to argue with Hughes. (USA Today -- Life)
A musician's travels Mar 28, 2009
Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Depp. Get the picture. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
EX-CONCERT PROMOTER EYES COMMUNITY CHANGE Mar 17, 2009
White used the example of poet Langston Hughes character, Jessie B. Semple or Just Simple, to illustrate this principle. Hospitalized with pneumonia, Simple tells a friend of all the misfortune and ills that have beset him throughout his life. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Black America's First Mortgage Crisis Mar 12, 2009
SomeoneI think it was Langston Hughes (whose poetry inspired the name of Hansberrys play) once wrote that the reason black people werent as surprised by the Depression as white people is that the Depression hit them a decade earlier. I am not sure that this is true, but the larger point is well taken: The current economic downturn represents a double crisis for black America. (Slate)
They'll excite with poetry Thursday night Mar 12, 2009
Instead, they've chosen poems by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou and Paul Dunbar. "Old white guy poetry may be dead, but these poets they're choosing are becoming really popular with students," said Christine Miller, a program coordinator for the arts agency. (Albany Times Union)
Groups get Westobou Festival money Mar 11, 2009
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History received $7,500 to finance a multimedia presentation of Langston Hughes' Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. The Riverwalk Series received $15,000 for a performance by Elisabeth Von Trapp, a granddaughter of Baron and Maria Von Trapp of Sound of Music fame. (The Augusta Chronicle)
'A Raisin in the Sun' as timely as ever Mar 11, 2009
Just as Hansberry took her title from Langston Hughes ("What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ Like a raisin in the sun?"), each character embodies a different dream for African Americans - from Mama's focus on home and family and Walter's on money to Beneatha's interest in pan-Africanism and dedication to serving humanity as a doctor. By the time King turned "dream" into the rallying call for a generation at the '63 March on Washington, Mama's purchase of a house in a white... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Last Word on 'The L Word' Mar 10, 2009
There, they sang to him and read Langston Hughes poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. And then, ever so quietly, he slipped away. (Slate)
Tales to tell: Short stories Mar 6, 2009
Amy Bloom's "Silver Water" will be read noon to 1 p.m. March 25; Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" will be read noon to 1 p.m. April 1; Langston Hughes' "Early Autumn" will be read noon to 1 p.m. April 8; Amy Hempel's "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" will be read noon to 1 p.m. April 15; Josephine Jacobsen's "Jack Frost" will be read noon to 1 p.m. April 22; Murakami Haruki's "Lederhosen" will be read noon to 1 p.m. April 29; Senel Paz' "Under the Weeping Willow" will be read noon... (NJ.com -- Times)
Blacks, Whites Hear Obama Differently Mar 4, 2009
Politico: President's Racial Identity Formulated By "Dog Whistle Politics". Beyond speech, blacks have picked up certain pieces of President Barack Obamas mannerisms, particularly his walk, that signal authenticity. (CBS News)
Dayo Olopade: Talking Whose Talk? Mar 4, 2009
In January remarks about the economy, Obama made a reference to American dreams that are being deferred, a phrase black audiences understood without a citation as black poet Langston Hughes. First lady Michelle Obama often cites her upbringing in the South Side of Chicago. (Slate)
Luncheon celebrates Black History Month Feb 27, 2009
"From prolific poet Langston Hughes who famously said 'I, too, am America,' in a time when he had to fight for his equal rights, to our current president, Barack Obama, who said, and I quote, 'There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America,'" Cole said. "That is what many of us hope for, for this great nation, yet the election of the first black president will not achieve that instantaneously - it is up to we the... (Leavenworth Lamp, KS)
Diverse crowd reads works by black writers Feb 25, 2009
About 25 people celebrated the words of Tupac Shakur, Langston Hughes and Malcolm X Tuesday night at the 20th National African-American Read-In. The event was part of a nationwide effort to celebrate black literacy during Black History Month. (Daily Collegian, PA)
National religion briefs Feb 22, 2009
"Three of the four main U.S. rabbinical associations will be led by women when Dreyfus begins her tenure.In October, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld was named executive vice president of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly. Rabbi Toba Spitzer, the first openly gay or lesbian person to head a rabbinical assembly, became president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association in 2007.Kansas church members raise money for building with ties to poetLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ---- Members of a... (North County Times)
Oakland considers joining Lake Apopka Natural Gas Feb 19, 2009
approved a one-man play at Oakland Avenue Charter School on March 23 at 7 p.m. Actor Charles E. Pace will present the tribute to notable poet and storyteller Langston Hughes. The program is free and open to the public. (Winter Garden West Orange Times, FL)
Icons brought to life Feb 16, 2009
Actors Danny Glover, Felix Justice portray Langston Hughes, MLK as part of colleges annual symposium ... The iconic actor, best known for his roles in The Color Purple and the Lethal Weapon series, opened with lines from a Langston Hughes poem. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Poetry Podcasts Feb 16, 2009
Poetry Off the Shelf, a series of readings, interviews, and documentaries produced by Curtis Fox features such poets as Seamus Heaney, Langston Hughes, and Czeslaw Milosz. Poem a Day, which is pretty self-explanatory, features the work of many well-known contemporary poets read by both poets and actors. (Suite101.com)
Love, Lincoln and Langston Hughes Feb 16, 2009
A few notes on new books gaining attention in a month that celebrates black history, Presidents Day and cupid through the life of a saint: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers": Awardwinning illustrator E.B. Lewis offers a visual interpretation of the Langston Hughes poem by the same title. The poem, first published in 1921, became signature Hughes, with lines such as, "I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers." The Rutgers University Project on Economics and... (Montana Standard, MT)
Mother's passion was to do all she could Feb 15, 2009
In reviewing her life, Thomasena Grigsby once fell upon a phrase by poet Langston Hughes - "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.". The poem, Mother to Son, notes the hardships that life can bring but also the need to keep going on. (AZCentral -- News)
100 YEARS A Century of the NAACP Feb 12, 2009
Langston Hughes, the famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance, later wrote the first history of the NAACP, calling the five letters the "most famous initials in America.". The NAACP was founded soon after Abraham Lincoln's home town went up in flames. (Washington Post)
Trinity's 'Raisin' draws strength from ensemble cast Feb 11, 2009
The actors begin by assembling onstage to recite the Langston Hughes poem that gave Lorraine Hansberry her title. They'll recite it a second time later on, just in case we missed the point. (Boston Globe)
'Wax museum' depicts influential blacks Feb 10, 2009
Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson and about a dozen other black luminaries graced HUB Heritage Hall Monday night as part of Penn State's first Black Wax Museum. Played by Penn State students, the "wax figures" spoke briefly about themselves as students drifted through the exhibit. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Miri Marshall Feb 8, 2009
Favorite Author: I love Jackie Collins, Erik Jerome Dickey and Langston Hughes. Favorite Poems: One Art, Phenomenal Woman, Poor Girl, My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Claudia Roth Pierpont: James Baldwin’s flight from America. Feb 8, 2009
Although Baldwin seemed a natural heir to the Harlem Renaissance he was born right there, in 1924, and Countee Cullen was one of his schoolteachers the bittersweet poetry of writers like Cullen and Langston Hughes held no appeal for him. It was Wright s unabating fury that hit him hard. (New Yorker)
The omnivores remember Feb 8, 2009
Famous literary figures make contributions to these pages, among them Nathaniel Hawthorne, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein, pitter-pattering away in her faux-naif manner ("Well there are really quite a number of things to make different kinds of things to eat and everybody likes it all very much"). Finally, O'Neill's engaging, knowledgeable little prefaces for each writer are excellent contributions just on their own. (Boston Globe)
'An Evening with Langston and Martin', Glover and Justice Feb 8, 2009
works of Harlem poet Langston Hughes and activist Dr. Martin Luther King ... "Glover spoke of the poet Hughes' life, with exacting actors emphasis on detail. He reconstructed the era's history surrounding Hughes' work, in an effort to create understanding of placement, history and "the movement". Question and answer period. Photo by Patricia Jackson He read several of Langston Hughes works to the spellbound audience, as a violin soloed in the background, creating a solemn atmosphere, when pieces... (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Grissom announces hes leaving CSI Feb 7, 2009
(Perhaps named for Langston Hughes. Grissom sat in on Langstons criminology class in which he let the students have a teleconference with the jailed DJK. According to Grissom, Langston had been a research pathologist at a hospital on the East Coast. (MSNBC -- Television)
Seeking Lincoln, and finding the Lincoln Memorial Feb 7, 2009
"Quiet _and yet a voice forever," the poet Langston Hughes once wrote in tribute to the stern, marbled colossus, 19 feet tall. It is a first stop for many who visit Washington, an unofficial mecca for organized dissent and as much a minting of the Lincoln image as his profile on the penny. (International Herald Tribune)
Smart Spending Feb 7, 2009
Among the highlights are exhibits celebrating poet and playwright Langston Hughes and a show at City Hall called Legends and Legacies, which focuses on the history of Negro League baseball ... Langston Hughes Exhibit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
