The long overdue anti-lynching bill signed into law by Biden yesterday brings to mind powerful lynching poems, including this one by Hughes.
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A Hughes Poem in a SCOTUS Hearing
By citing Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” Sen. Booker honored the occasion of the first African American woman being nominated for the Supreme Court.
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No Crystal Stair for Judge Jackson
The prospect of a Black woman being nominated to the highest court in the land bring to mind Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son.” In other words, it’s been a long climb.
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Book Bans Again on the Rise
With book bans on the rise, Langston Hughes’s “My Adventures as a Social Poet” is must reading. So is Brecht’s “Burning of the Books.”
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The Lynching of Jesus
In “Christ in Alabama,” Hughes imagines a black Christ being lynched by a white mob.
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The City on the Hill Requires Climbing
Amanda’s Gorman’s “Hill We Climb” provides an African American slant to Winthrop’s “city on a hill” image.
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Use Poetry to Teach American Civics
Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.
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Lit for Understanding the Biden Voter
To understand “the Joe Biden” voter, start with August Wilson’s “Fences.”
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