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Langston Hughes Society @langstonhughessoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

90 years ago Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again” was published in the July 1936 issue of Esquire. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

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Let America Be America Again

(America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor…

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Langston Hughes Society @langstonhughessoc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

At the College Language Association’s 84th annual conference in Jackson, MS, the Langston Hughes Society held a panel to celebrate Randal Jelks’s new book, My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy. Pictured: LHS founding member and past president Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper and Randal Jelks.

Langston Hughes Society founding member and past president Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper (left) and Randal Jelks sit at a table during the panel. Dr. Harper holds Dr. Jelks’s book.

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