Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

  • My poetry, my life

    Langston Hughes speaks to a live audience, interspersing stories from his life, including his childhood, family life, and how he got started writing, with readings of his poems. Recorded at the University of California December 10, 1958. Previously cataloged with the title “Reading and life history / Langston Hughes.”

  • The Negro in American culture.

    An outstanding panel on Black perceptions of the American setting in art, mainly literature and drama, featuring James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry and Emile Capouya, and Alfred Kazin. Hansberry excoriates the “arbitrary and superficial approach to Negro character of white writers.” Baldwin describes his sense of the polarity between being a writer and a…

  • The Negro in American culture / executive producer Tarabu Betserai.

    Historically significant panel discussion in which James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and Alfred Kazin speak about the many perceptions of African Americans in American literature, as well as in the broader American culture. Technical problems with bleed through on the original recording does little to diminish the importance of this debate.|THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN…

  • The Sky with its mouth open : voices from political prisons / produced by Jim Berland and Paul Vangelisti.

    Reading of poems and prose by political prisoners from around the world. Works by Antonio Gramasci, Imamu Baraka, Langston Hughes, and Kim Chi Ha.

  • Special program commemorating Negro History Week (Part 1 of 2)

    Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar. The entire program provides a brief history of Blacks in the United States, highlighting the Civil Rights movement. Part one includes a history of Blacks as slave and freemen in Latin America, audio from a Folkways recording narrated by…