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Langston Hughes
  • A Noise Within

    Langston Hughes: The Poetic Inspiration for Lorraine Hansberry

    Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, a golden age of African American art in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture through literature, music, stage performance, and visual art. Hughes’ poetry in particular was heavily influenced by jazz music, which he considered “one of the…