Album cover for the musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY with a cartoon man and woman smiling at each other

A young Langston Hughes in a tie and coat looks at us from beneath a brimmed hat at a jaunty angle.

Did you know that the poet Langston Hughes wrote a musical? ME NEITHER! Let's listen to some of it together Tuesday 4/21 at 8pm EST on 🎶BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD🎶 Streaming live at WAPJ.org #Broadway #LangstonHughes #poetry

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

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{2026 New Release} My America : Langston Hughes on Democracy by: Randal Maurice Jelks Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today? Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American artist Langston Hughes. My America traces Hughes's journey from a child captivated by the wonder of Kansas City to cosmopolitan witness in Paris, New York, Mexico City, and Madrid.

Discover the real Langston Hughes in My America. Randal M. Jelks reveals how the Harlem Renaissance leader used art as a joyous act of resistance against fascism and inequality. A timely look at how Hughes’s pursuit of justice can guide our democracy today. ✍️✨ #LangstonHughes #HarlemRenaissance

Langston Hughes double feature:
In Time of Silver Rain. 🌧️
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Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper: Overtüre Kurt Weill, Rias-Sinfonietta Berlin, John Mauceri · Die Dreigroschenoper · Song · 1990

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Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes, Jerry Hadley, Scottish Opera Orchestra & John Mauceri:
🎵 Lonely House (Street Scene)

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Read poem Motto by Langston Hughes!
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Discuss with your students or #bookgroup:
- Why does the speaker love the rain?
- What does it mean to “let the rain kiss you”?
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International Red Aid propaganda poster in Russian and Uzbek language: "Wrest eight innocent young negroes out of the hands of the American bourgeoisie!" American policeman is depicted in front of the Nazi swastika with baton raised against food rioters. By Медведев (полное имя, годы жизни и биографические сведения неизвестны) - Российская государственная библиотека, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70682715

Today in #LaborHistory 3/25/1931: #ScottsboroBoys, age 13-20, falsely arrested in #Alabama & charged with rape. Lynch mob tried to murder them before being convicted by all-white jury. #Communist Party & #NAACP got some freed. Others freed by 1946. #LangstonHughes & #RichardWright wrote about it.

Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes, edited by Ricardo Wilson II

Troubled Lands is a landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of 33 stories by 18 Mexican & Cuban writers, edited by Ricardo Wilson II.

Now available (19 May UK pub).

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Langston Hughes reminds us that often, showing up is half the battle. ⛰️ Whatever it is you need to get done, we believe in you; just take it one step at a time. ❤️

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Theme for English B Langston Hughes (Born 1 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, USA, died 22 May 1967 in New York City, New York, USA)

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Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes, edited by Ricardo Wilson II. A landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers.

Troubled Lands, edited by Ricardo Wilson II, is a landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of 33 stories by 18 Mexican & Cuban writers.

Available March 24 (19 May UK pub).

Preorder yours today:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Freedom will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want my freedom Just as you.

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Freedom by Langston Hughes

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Great program by boston opera on tap at cambridge public library on #LangstonHughes. The performers were excellent. Wish i could have stayed for all of it.

Jessie's living her best life during the #HarlemRenaissance. I love that it features historical figures.
I'm lovin' this story and I don't know where it's goin'.
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When freedom becomes an inner law rather than an artificial outer privilege, we bequeath to the future a world that can’t be stolen… because it lives within the soul.

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Take the whole school down. 😮 and it looks like that was a special needs bus.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH! DREAM BIG!!! #BHM #langstonhughes #marcusgeeterthemakeuptherapist

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📗All The Spoilers #ReadWitUS Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
Story starts in 1919 #Harlem, USA and features many historical figures of the time #WEBDubois, #LangstonHughes, #MaryBethune, and more.
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