black like me (part 2)

by | Feb 7, 2017

  Langston Hughes opened my mind many years ago and showed me a painful glimpse into his broken soul. The novelist John Howard Griffin inspired by Langston Hughes' poem Dream Variations, embodied Atticus Finch and did not mind his business.  He...

black like me (part 1)

by | Feb 6, 2017

  I offer you a poem for your consumption. Langston Hughes wrote and published Dream Variations, in 1926.  It is an subtle series of lines, that found its way into his first poetry collection titled The Weary Blues.  Don't be concerned if you...