Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfield’s past.
#LangstonHughes #VachelLindsay #AbrahamLincoln #Springfield #Travel #Poetry #LiteraryTourism #writershomes #poets
https://www.sacredwonderland.us/langston-hughes-slept-here/

#NJ Hall of Fame: Time to add #SenatorCoryBooker to this illustrious list?! #Democracy #newjersey #stanford #langstonhughes #GardenState #GOAT #uspol https://corybooker.com

Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #scottsboroboys #racism #lynching #rape #prison #langstonhughes #richardwright #novel #naacp #communism #books #author #writer #fiction #alabama #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

World #Poetry Day #langstonhughes #dylanthomas

Langston Hughes Slept Here: A tour of the Vachel Lindsay Home

Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, but other attractions can be found there. Vachel Lindsay, once a much-celebrated American poet, haunts these neighborhoods. And poet Langston Hughes also hallows Springfield’s past.

#LangstonHughes #VachelLindsay #AbrahamLincoln #Springfield #Travel #Poetry #LiteraryTourism #writershomes

https://www.sacredwonderland.us/langston-hughes-slept-here/

Tired

By Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two —
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

(Manually typed from a graphic on social media. Verified with Wikiquote.)

A fellow #blogger posted this important very relevant #poem by #LangstonHughes. #BlackHistoryMonth #poetry #justice

https://www.carlsetzer.com/2025/02/06/freedom-by-langston-hughes/

“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?”
― #langstonhughes
#blackhistorymonth

#OnThisDay in 1902, #LangstonHughes, American #poet (Weary Blues), #playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1967).
#RIP

What is America to me?

Another person, one of us queer Black folks, covers some of what the U.S. is/was/could be.

https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again

#USPol
#UnrequitedLoyalty
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#Patriotism
#BlackThought
#LangstonHughes
#poetry
#LGBTQ
#LGBTQIA

#Quotes #Memes #LangstonHughes #SelfAwareness
https://adeaconsmusing.ca/