Day 23: (Black History Month Day 11): Langston Hughes “Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn’t lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.”

Required reading in links.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
• https://youtu.be/79YjXKYeWCk
• https://youtu.be/8cKDOGhghMU
• https://youtu.be/Px5hwNCs9ss speaking at ucla just a few months before he died
• https://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/negro-speaks-rivers
• http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aa-history-month-bios/langston-hughes
• http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6592054
• http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/langston.html
• http://www.salon.com/2017/02/12/langston-hughes-saw-donald-trump-coming-let-america-be-america-again-vs-maga/
• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/sojourner

For Black History Month I’m collaborating with the brilliant photographer William Patrick Butler, over at his blog: https://medium.com/@wpb Check it out for his take on today’s post. Also, check out his photography: https://williampatrickbutler.exposure.co/