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This rare photo from 1933 shows a very dapper Langston Hughes posing glamorously. Consuelo Kanaga captured the Harlem Renaissance artist in this closeup which looks almost like a fashion editorial. Most portraits of Hughes are at a distance and were often more formal in his early years. There is definitely something about black and white film that captures a certain mood and this photo is a prime example. With that said, It was time to rework the blog into a cleaner format as is fashionable…

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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions" ~ Rollo May Camille Claudel -- L'implorante, 1905 John Waters Studs Terkel Langston Hughes in Harlem with some brilliant young minds Ryan White Winona LaDuke Frida Kahlo The incredible Chris Drew Bea Booze -- Rhythm and Blues goddess and rock pioneer Annie Mae Pictou Aquash Angela Davis Tura Satana Leontyne Price The mighty Madussa....Ari Up Diane Arbus -- Two girls in matching bathing suits…

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After spending a year in Mexico with his father, Hughes wrote the poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” which ended up being published in a well known magazine. He went to Columbia University, but ended up dropping out after a year and started working jobs around New York. In 1924 Hughes travelled to Paris and lived there while he worked on his poetry.

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Many people remember growing up reading Langston Hughes, particularly for school. Langston Hughes continues to be one of the most influential poets of all time. His poem, "Harlem," was an inspiration for playwright Lorraine Hansberry so much that she wrote the Broadway play, Raisin in the Sun in 1959. If you're not familiar with Langston Hughes, some of the tiles of his pieces are "I Too," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Harlem (A Dream Deferred,)" and the short story, "Thank you M'am."

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From my series Authors in Ink, a site devoted to my pen and ink portraits of some of the greatest writers from around the world, along with graphic designs that represents a particular work, or cultural life of the subject.

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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes By Langston Hughes Edited by Arnold Rampersand Knopf, 480 pages, $35 These missives written by one of the most limpid African-American poets are self-concealing in the extreme. Langston Hughes was so discreet that when he was hospitalized for gonorrhea in 1941, he told intimate friends that the problem was arthritis....

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Poor black lives weren’t depicted in the serious fiction of Hughes’s day. As Angela Flournoy notes, his debut novel, “Not Without Laughter,” changed that.

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I just picked up a vintage copy of “The First Book of Jazz” by Langston Hughes (1955). The illustrations by Cliff Roberts are incredible. The style reminds me of one of my favorite jazz…

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