"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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Langston Hughes reads his poem.
The Langston Hughes Project
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Video of a performance of Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, a multi-media interpretation of Hughes's twelve-part epic poem. Very cool.
"I, Too"
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Hughes reads his poem and shares his thoughts about it.
Denzel, Too
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Denzel Washington recites "I, Too" in the film The Great Debaters.
The Weary Blues
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An interpretation of Hughes's poem, set to music.
Raisin in the Sun
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Actor Danny Glover reads the poem "Harlem."
"Motherless Child"
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Child star Bobby Breen sings in the 1939 film Way Down South, co-written by Hughes. Watch and wonder: what the heck is a little white boy doing singing a spiritual to an audience of ex-slaves?