My choice to #Make_Bluesky_Beautiful_with_Literature today is "Cross", by #Langston_Hughes.

#Bluesky_Literature #verse #literature #poetry #poems

My choice to #Make_Bluesky_Beautiul_with_Literature today is "Mother to Son" by #Langston_Hughes.

#Bluesky_Literature #poetry #literature #poem

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My choice to #Make_Bluesky_Beautiful_with_Literature today is "Boogie:1 Am" by #James_Mercer_Langston_Hughes, AKA #Langston_Hughes.

#Bluesky_Literature #verse #poem #poetry #literature

So he founded the legendary _Chicago Defender_, one of the great Black newspapers. The _Defender_ championed the Great Migration, and helped start the careers of legendary poets and authors like #Gwendolyn_Brooks and #Langston_Hughes. At its height, its circulation was over 200,000.

#langstonhughes's maternal grandmother was married to a man who joined #johnbrown at Harper’s Ferry, where he was fatally wounded.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

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