Langston Hughes:The Harlem Voice Prophetic Pain and Hope
Born in 1902, Langston Hughes was a great American Negro poet who who flourished as a writer and an author during the Harlem Renaissance Roaring i920′. He was a versatile writer who wrote in many different genres including poetry, plays and novels, but we will only give focus in this article on his poetry.
America, during the 1920’s was essentially a prejudice, segregated, repressive regime which relegated people of color to a no-man’s-land of second class citizenship. The reality was that for at least half the population of America, complete freedoms were being denied and this sparked a political controversy, and a kind of cultural revolution of sorts, in New York City’s vast neighborhood of Black Harlem which was expressed in an explosion of the African American literary and musical arts. During this time Hughes came along who was a brilliant, sensitive man with a great soul and an uncanny vision of what will happen in the future,
It was a dark time in America when Hughes came along to shine a little light on us and the whole world about the humanity of all people regardless of hue or color. He wrote:
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