Langston Hughes (1902–1967), the writer of the poem “As I Grew Older,” was an African-American poet involved in the civil rights movement. He lived when black people were heavily oppressed in America, and he believed that poetry and art could bring about racial equality. Hughes was invo...
Langston Hughes (1902–1967), the writer of the poem “As I Grew Older,” was an African-American poet involved in the civil rights movement. He lived when black people were heavily oppressed in America, and he believed that poetry and art could bring about racial equality. Hughes was invo...
‘I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go (Langston Hughes).’ Listening to: David Gray’s ‘Sail Away,’ Martyn Joseph’s ‘One Step Up,’ Over the Rhine’s ‘Who Will Guard the Door,’ Amanda Marshall’s...
My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But w...
''Child of the Americas'' is a poem by Puerto Rican poet Aurora Levins Morales. She often writes about the struggle of growing up both Latina and Jewish. Levins Morales is an activist for women's rights, a theme which also appears in her work. ...
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And the beauty of thinking about holiness inthisway is that more and more of your life can be holy; thingsbecomeholy if you treat them with reverence. And this is Mayer’s song. When he was a boy, holiness was something that came from God, that came from the church: holy water to ...
enough to read a few books. One of the essentials in my life is Howard Zinn’s searing political commentaryA People’s History of the United States. During lockdown, I picked up a copy of its companion book, which includes speeches and essays by Noam Chomsky, Langston Hughes and M...
Today our classrooms will be filled with teachers who will walk into their room and wonder what they would do if it was them. The victims of yesterday’s events and their families and lives will never be the same. That’s not what they signed up for, they are there to protect our chi...