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Article: Langston Hughes: 100th birthday celebration of the poet laureate of Black America.(Brief Article)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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HE was the most American of American poets. His verse was infused with the rhythms of the country's first truly indigenous musical forms--jazz and blues. He wrote in a voice that was definitively African-American and defiantly pro-Black. Yet he spoke to all people--about about freedom, about dignity, about Black mothers and fathers, about Black American life and loves and dreams.
His voice still resonates today, with young people and old people, Black people and White people. The most celebrated band of the Harlem Renaissance is also the preferred poet of the hip-hop generation. And that is why the 100th anniversary of the birth of Langston Hughes--dubbed "the ...