Usually, we only talk about visual artists on this podcast however, I wanted to cover Hughes because of his prominence in the Harlem Renaissance and his inspiration to writers, poets, actors and artists in our community.  And today is his birthday! February 01, 1902.

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Sources:

Langston Hughes (1940). The Big Sea. p. 36. ISBN 0-8262-1410-X.

https://www.biography.com/writer/langston-hughes

Rampersad, Arnold (2002). The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World. Oxford University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-19-988227-4.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060604509.html?nav=rss_email/components

https://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/JMLangston.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coussey