"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 years old and was crossing the Mississippi...
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Margaret Bonds (category Bienen School of Music alumni)
in the basement of the Evanston Public Library where they had the poetry. I came in contact with this wonderful poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and...
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Langston Hughes (redirect from The Dream Keeper)
design on the floor is an African cosmogram entitled Rivers. The title is taken from his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". Within the center of the cosmogram...
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Pearl Primus (category Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United States)
the Bealson Theatre. Here she performed a work that was choreographed to Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". The poem addressed the inequalities...
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Howard Swanson (category Cleveland Institute of Music alumni)
individual song settings of the poems "Joy," "In Time of Silver Rain," "Night Song," "Pierrot," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (performed by Helen Thigpen...
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Son", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and "Harlem" were described in the Encyclopedia of African-American Writing as "anthems of black America". The linguist...
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"Mother to Son", and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" were described in the Encyclopedia of African-American Writing as "anthems of black America". Scott...
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often based her dances on the work of black writers and on racial issues, such as Langston Hughes's 1944 The Negro Speaks of Rivers, and Lewis Allan's 1945...
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Souls Grown Deep Foundation (category Arts foundations based in the United States)
Hughes (1902–1967) titled "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," the last line of which is "My soul has grown deep like the rivers. The foundation is led by Maxwell...
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Mountain Negro National League (1920–1931) Negro National League (1933–1948) The Negro in the South The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Negro Star Negro World...
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