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Lodi Academy routs Langston Hughes Academy in varsity girls basketball

Lodi News-Sentinel - Jan 27, 2012
Rachel Cacho had 21 points, 21 rebounds and 12 steals to lead the Lodi Academy Titans to a 66-23 win over the Langston Hughes Academy in varsity girls basketball. Brooke Allen had 16 points, 12 rebounds and four steals and Edreann Galicinao had 14 ...

Dream is upheld

Vermont Cynic - Jan 26, 2012
24 for "An evening with Martin and Langston," an event featuring actor and director Felix Justice and actor Danny Glover, which honored the lives and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Langston Hughes. Glover has been a longtime champion of civil ...

EMU professor emeritus Naomi Long Madgett named Kresge Eminent Artist

AnnArbor.com - Jan 27, 2012
As a teenager, Madgett met poet and writer Langston Hughes when he spoke at her mother's literary club. She told him she was writing poetry and was delighted when he presented her with an autographed copy of his latest poetry book.

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Langston Hughes books

101 Great American Poems

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literary quality, includes Poe's "The Raven," Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree

by: James H. Cone
They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. Acts 10:39

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning.
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