New York columnist Roger Cohen suggests two poems for resisting Trumpism: “if” and “Harlem.”
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Poems for Resisting Trump
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Black Lives Mattered to Langston Hughes
Following two more shootings of unarmed black men, the New York Times devoted a full page to Langston Hughes’s powerful poem “I, Too.” Meanwhile, his poem “Harlem” provides an explanation for the riots in Charlotte.
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What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Langston Hughes puts his finger on Baltimore’s black anger in “Justice” and “Harlem.”
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