Tag: Langston Hughes
We’re excited that you’ve joined the conversation! At HMU, we want to continue the great authors’ conversations in a contemporary context, and this blog will help us do that. We look back to Aristotle and the early philosophers who used reason and discourse to gain wisdom and now we endeavor to do the same every day.
CATEGORIES
February 19, 2016
“There is the nobleness of the human spirit…despite it all…
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave
I am the hope and the dream of the slave.” Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise”
In 1926, Langston Hughes published a short essay in The Nation titled, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”.