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Hughes set out to do what few, regardless of race, creed, or color,
have succeeded in doing, a body of work that has given us a rich,
varied, and often vivid picture of the tops of a lot of things about
Negroes and Negro life in America; rather little … Read the rest
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Much of his work celebrated the beauty and dignity and Humanity
of black Americans. Unlike other writers Hughes basked in the glow of
the obviously high regard of his primary audience, African Americans.
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Books by Langston Hughes
Weary Blues (1926) / The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes / … Read the rest
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman were
Hughes primary literary influences. He is known for his insightful, colorful
portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.
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I never will forget the experience that came to all of us on that night,
that the old nation was to pass away and a new nation to come
into being. I remember as we stood out there where hundreds and
thousands of people assembled, waiting for the old … Read the rest
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This book also takes a quick lookbut only in two short chaptersat the history of
advertising in this press and the roles played by African-American magazines (which
is included in a chapter that also looks at radio and television). It is, without a doubt,
the best, most comprehensive history … Read the rest
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What we learn from Mr. Joseph is that the Black Power revolution was painful, stressful, traumatic,
suicidal, homicidal, but often liberating, such as the 1972 convention and Congress of African People.
Just meeting together was a victory.
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each of us has to make this a better world through service . . . and only you can determine what
kind of service you can provide. Yes, as a very privileged young man, you have
a responsibility, because “to whom much is given, much is expected,”
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women’s roles in nation-building have largely remained blank pages of history;
hence, this essay fills in the blank pages with a reconstructed account of
women’s contributions by recourse to oral traditions, personal interviews,
eye witness accounts and documentary records.
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Her commodious history of an idea accommodates Caesar;
Saint Patrick, history’s most famous British slave of the early
medieval period; Madame de Staël; and Emerson, the philosopher
king of American white race theory. Painter (Sojourner Truth)
reviews the diverse cast in their intellectual milieus, linking t
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Over the years I have known Ukali, he has been a consistent advocate for justice and equality for African people
everywhere. In this book, History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry, Ukali chronicles his lifetime experiences
in America and Africa, and pays homage to our ancestors Langston Hughes, Marcus … Read the rest
