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Langston Hughes in his twenties, c. 1930
The Negro Artist and the Racial MountainOriginally published in The Nation, 1926
One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, "I want to be a poet--not a Negro poet," meaning, I believe,...
Richard Wright's self portrait outside Normandy,
France, circa 1959.
Blueprint for Negro Writing(originally published in New Masses, 1937)
1. The Minority Outlook
Somewhere in his writings Lenin makes the observation that oppressed minorities often...
Essex Hemphill (1957-1995)
Family Jewels
for Washington D.C.
I live in a town
where pretense and bone structure
prevail as credentials
of status and beauty.
A town bewitched
by mirrors, horoscopes
and corruption.
I intrude on this...
"President Roberts's House, Monrovia" Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan's, ca. 1850 Lithograph
Tract on Racial Conflict: A Scene from Hell
The fifth day of May of 1871 was a scene from hell; one man's hell in actuality came to pass on the streets of the...
