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. (26 minutes
In his youth, Langston Hughes wrote poetry imitating popular Negro verse forms, but as he matured an...
African Americans’ place in the American society has changed over time, so has the focus of African ...
Set up in the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, this paper seeks to explore the response of the Bl...
A presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Heinle Publishing ; producer/director, Bru...
Films for the Humanities & Sciences presents in association with Heinle Publishing ; a Bruce R. Schw...
The twelfth volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes contains Hughes\u27s collections of bio...
Perhaps the single best-known and most highly regarded African-American writer of his time, Langston...
Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the mos...
Langston Hughes was and is recognised as one of the most important African American writers of the t...
While Hughes’s greatest achievement was his poetry, which related and celebrated the African America...
Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Christian Gauss Award. The poet Langston Hughes was a ...
Looking for Langston, by black British filmmaker Isaac Julien was shown at the Studio Cinema in Tour...
Langston Hughes was an American artist, writer, and dramatist whose African-American subjects made h...
This research is concerned with Langston Hughes’ professional and personal contacts and their im...
Program includes words of Lift every voice and sing by James Weldon Johnson, a picture of Langston...
In his youth, Langston Hughes wrote poetry imitating popular Negro verse forms, but as he matured an...
African Americans’ place in the American society has changed over time, so has the focus of African ...
Set up in the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, this paper seeks to explore the response of the Bl...
A presentation of Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Heinle Publishing ; producer/director, Bru...
Films for the Humanities & Sciences presents in association with Heinle Publishing ; a Bruce R. Schw...
The twelfth volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes contains Hughes\u27s collections of bio...
Perhaps the single best-known and most highly regarded African-American writer of his time, Langston...
Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the mos...
Langston Hughes was and is recognised as one of the most important African American writers of the t...
While Hughes’s greatest achievement was his poetry, which related and celebrated the African America...
Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Christian Gauss Award. The poet Langston Hughes was a ...
Looking for Langston, by black British filmmaker Isaac Julien was shown at the Studio Cinema in Tour...
Langston Hughes was an American artist, writer, and dramatist whose African-American subjects made h...
This research is concerned with Langston Hughes’ professional and personal contacts and their im...
Program includes words of Lift every voice and sing by James Weldon Johnson, a picture of Langston...
In his youth, Langston Hughes wrote poetry imitating popular Negro verse forms, but as he matured an...
African Americans’ place in the American society has changed over time, so has the focus of African ...
Set up in the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, this paper seeks to explore the response of the Bl...