https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes en-us 2018-03-16 01:15:02 UTC 2026-02-22 09:35:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242645153 Langston Hughes was born in 1902 and was an American poet, social activist, novelist, and columnist from Missouri. He was one of the founding fathers of 'jazz - poetry', an emerging art form at the time. He is best known for leading the Harlem Renaissance in NYC. 

Hughes' great grandparents were brought to the America's by the slave trade and worked as slaves in the US. Hughes was close to his mother but didn't have a good relationship with his father. 

As an adult, Langston Hughes worked multiple odd jobs and he lived in Harlem for the majority of his life. Some historians believed that Hughes was homosexual as this motif appeared in multiple works of his. 

Hughes died in 1967 due to complications arising from prostate cancer.  ]]> 2018-03-16 01:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242645153 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242645218 2018-03-16 01:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242645218 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242645742 The blues stanza is a recognizable song structure originating from African Americans.]]> 2018-03-16 01:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242645742 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242646415 Both of Langston Hughes great-grandmothers were enslaved African Americans and both of his great-grandfathers were white slave owners. He grew up in small midwestern towns, and his father left his mother. Hughes was drawn to the premise of Communism as an alternative for segregated America, and joined a group of people to go to Soviet Russia. ]]> 2018-03-16 01:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242646415 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242647153 2018-03-16 01:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242647153 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242648031 Langston hughes was the first poet to transform the idioms in the blues and jazz into poetic verse.]]> 2018-03-16 01:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242648031 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242650249 Hughes' signature poems is featured in a liberating magazine 'The Crisis'. Hughes' life and work was mainly influencial and popular during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, alongside other colleagues. Hughes' and his colleagues had different goals, ideas and views from the black middle class where Hughes' and other artists' alike mostly focused on depicting the "low-life" in their art which the reality of how black people are treated in the society. Hughes stressed a racial consciousness and self-hate. His thought united people of African descent and Africa across the globe to encourage pride in their diverse black folk culture
. Hughes was one of the few prominent black writers to champion racial consciousness as a source of inspiration for black artists.]]> 2018-03-16 02:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242650249 https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242653085 2018-03-16 02:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/llyon2/langstonhughes/wish/242653085