Langston Hughes : his life and times

A presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Heinle Publishing ; producer/director, Bruce R. Schwartz. Commentary, Alice Walker, Arnold Rampersad, Bruce Schwartz. Cinematographer, George Spies ; editor, Kris Lindquist ; music, Rocky Davis.In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker and renowned Langston Hughes biographer Arnold Rampersad talk about 'The Poet Laureate of Harlem' with award-winning filmmaker Bruce Schwartz. Together they discuss experiences that shaped young Langston, how he came to be a writer, the beauty of his writing style, his practice of reaching out to aspiring writers, and the Harlem Renaissance as a literary and cultural watershed. They also discuss the force of religion in Southern Christian African-American communities and 'Salvation, ' Hughes' coming-of-age story deftly brought to the screen by Schwartz