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Collages Inspired by Langston Hughes Poems Acquired by Morgan Library

by Cassie Packard June 20, 2021June 17, 2021

The donation of Ashley Bryan’s work marks the Morgan’s first major acquisition of work by a Black children’s author and illustrator.

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Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem

Avatar photo by Colony Little December 28, 2018October 22, 2020

Director Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph’s “Fly Paper” transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava’s 1950s portraits of Harlem.

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Thelma Golden Leads a Panel on Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes’s Book on Harlem

Avatar photo by Deena ElGenaidi October 22, 2018October 22, 2018

In honor of the republication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Cooper Union will host a panel discussion on their work.

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Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 15, 2017December 20, 2021

The Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes’s typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends.

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Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 4, 2017April 4, 2017

Yale University’s Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes’s collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.

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Faith Ringgold’s Unrealized Tribute to Harlem Literary Life

by Laura C. Mallonee April 28, 2014April 30, 2014

A little-known depiction of Harlem literary life and African-American literature by Faith Ringgold is currently on view at the New York Public Library in its exhibition The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter.

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