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...The two songs by Bonds, both settings of Langston Hughes, were a welcome choice, never sounding second-best alongside the more celebrated Gershwin....
...“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” proclaimed poet and activist Langston Hughes in 1926, adopting a prophet-like tone....
...These days, antique dealer Langston depends on non-visual clues — “a certain aura” and conversation. “Often they don’t say very much, and often don’t give away very much....
...Mixing rhyme and spoken word, she adds hip-hop relevance to the poetic tradition of Amiri Baraka and Langston Hughes....
...Thomas Schubert plays Leon, a young writer who has come with his friend, art student Felix (Langston Uibel), to stay in an idyllic retreat, a house surrounded by woods....
...Among the older works are two appreciable short cycles setting Langston Hughes, Robert Owens’s lucid Silver Rain (1958) and the happy, romantic Songs of the Seasons (1955) by Margaret Bonds. ★★★★☆ ‘Rising...
...In Linton’s bittersweet production of Blues for an Alabama Sky at London’s National Theatre last year, Langston Hughes’s poem “Dreams”, set to bluesy music, snaked through the action like a refrain, expanding...
...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...
...His films have been a touchstone for image-lovers — black, queer and beyond — since his 1989 homage to Hughes, Looking for Langston....
...“This is breathtaking and astonishing in its reach and potential impact to deals,” said James Langston, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb in New York....
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...And coursing through it all are the questions proposed by Hansberry, by the Langston Hughes poem that gave her play its title, and by the title of Kwei-Armah’s response....
...Langston said: “I was surprised at what they offered if I’m honest. I wasn’t expecting it to be that high at all.”...
...The foundation takes its name from a line by the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, linking the Mississippi to the Nile. These works can indeed be seen as part of a Black Atlantic tradition....
...In Linton’s staging, vivid, beautifully drawn performances pulled the audience into the characters’ world, while the creative team brought a dreamy edge to the show by threading a musical arrangement of Langston...
...Langston Hughes’s poem runs like a bluesy refrain through Lynette Linton’s wonderful, bittersweet staging of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky....
...He stood at the front door and Langston opened it, and he was expecting to see this big photo book — two feet by one foot — and Langston put his hand in the back pocket of his pants and pulled out this little...
...Even with that, pharma companies are still sitting on billions of dollars of cash “because they’ve been some of the winners of the pandemic,” said James Langston, a partner at law firm Cleary Gottlieb....
...Sermon, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska, pairs texts by writers including James Baldwin and Langston Hughes with musical extracts from John Adams and Anthony Davis....
...“It’s a bit like the Trump election,” said Joy Langston, a professor of political science at CIDE university....
...Cosmogram coasters ($25) feature the Center’s art installation Rivers, a site-specific work in honour of poet Langston Hughes by multidisciplinary artist Houston Conwill....
...Yuval Taylor’s biography charts the friendship and falling out of novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes....
...Bryce Langston, 35, and his wife Rasa run the YouTube channel Living Big in a Tiny House....
...But as that Langston Hughes poem, Advertisement for the Waldorf Astoria, published shortly after the 1931 opening, suggests, it was not for everyone....
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