I, Too, Sing America
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Two part documentary film on poet, writer and literary activist Langston Hughes. Directed by #KevinWilmott Donate dreamdocumentary.org/donate/
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http://dreamdocumentary.org/ 17-06-2017 16:40:08
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (then known as James Ngugi)….and American Langston Hughes also attended the 1962 Conference of Writers of English Expression held in Makerere College, Kampala, Uganda. tribuneonlineng.com/reliving-maker… Reliving Makerere in Ibadan - Tribune Online tribuneonlineng.com/reliving-maker…
I, Too, Sing America @drjelks Ngũgĩ writes about meeting Hughes in Birth of a Dream Weaver: "This milling crowd, its wails and shouts and ribald laughter, and the voice of Elly Wamala rising above them seem to fascinate Langston Hughes, and no talk of monuments would dislodge him from there. 1/
I, Too, Sing America @drjelks In his casual wear, he blended into the scene more than I did, with my gray gabardine trousers and black blazer. … we roamed from shop to shop, one pile of goods to another in the open-air street market, bumping against one drunk and another, [and] he seemed more 2/
I, Too, Sing America @drjelks interested in absorbing the atmosphere of harmony in dissonance that surrounded us, perhaps reminding him of his Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz." 3/
“Margaret Bonds was a Black composer who moved to New York City from Chicago to go to Juilliard. She set many of Langston Hughes poems, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I, Too, Sing America," to music, giving the words even deeper meaning.”interlochenpublicradio.org/podcast/classi…
#RT Los Angeles Review of Books: “Walter White and Constance Baker Motley both had a symbiotic relationship with the NAACP –– and paid a heavy price for their advocacy.” @drjelks considers two books about underappreciated Civil Rights figures. …
Look, Kenton Rambsy, phd and I were curious about the "one Black writer at a time" idea so we took a look at coverage in the Times from 1970 - 2021. We identified over 500 Black writers and examined their number of appearances. publicbooks.org/how-the-new-yo…