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Article: February marks 100th anniversary of the birth of Langston Hughes.(The Providence Journal)
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- February 4, 2002
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Langston Hughes chronicled the celebrations and setbacks of being black and living in America.
As a poet, essayist and novelist, his writing reflected injustice, disappointment, loneliness and plain old bad luck. But he didn't just highlight the stormy spots. Hughes was a biographer of black America, writing of black Americans going about their everydays: finding a job, falling in love.
"He created families on paper," says Ramona Bass, a Providence, R.I., storyteller who is co-administrator of the Hughes estate.
February is the 100th anniversary of the birth of this literary father figure. And this month, his legacy is being celebrated around ...