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Black History Month – Langston Hughes – Harlem Renaissance – American Poet

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902. Best known as an American poet, Hughes was also asocial activist, a novelist, a playwright, and a columnist. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form “jazz poetry”, Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.

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