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...It’s been 100 years since now legendary poets such as Langston Hughes and Blues singers like Bessie Smith helped sear this Upper Manhattan quarter into America’s cultural consciousness during Harlem’s fabled...
...Langston Hughes suggested a vivid and pithy definition: “When the shoe strings break/On both your shoes/And you’re in a hurry/That’s the blues.”...
...Barker, one-time post office messenger, to Bessie Moore in the closing years of the second world war, as their love grows despite, or possibly because of, the distance between them....
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