Podcasts about Langston Hughes

To Be Heard, To Be Seen, To MatterShaunda McDill is the newly appointed Managing Director of the Pittsburgh Public Theater. She is a rare type of new leader coming of age in the modern American Theater – black women who are ascending to top roles in major theatrical institutions across the country. She joins the ranks of theatrical trailblazers like Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Dominique Morisseau, Executive Artistic Producer at Detroit Public Theater; Patricia McGregor, Artistic Director at New York Theater Workshop; and Hana Sharif, the Augustin Family Artistic Director at Repertory Theater of St. Louis. All wrestling with that question of how do we create space within the canon of the theater to make as much room as possible for a multitude of voices, perspectives, and stories to emerge that are as diverse and as expansive as is the landscape of the country today. Because in the final analysis, it comes down to Representation. And whose stories get to be heard, to be seen and to matter.For Shaunda, her answer to that question has its roots in her nontraditional journey to the Pittsburgh Public Theater. As a young girl her life as an artist began by performing in skits at the local Red Cross to highlight HIV/AIDS for kids, and reciting Bible verses in the Easter Pageants at her church. Along the way, she was mentored by such theater and literary luminaries as Ntozake Shange and August Wilson, and influenced by the words of Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. She formed her own theater company called Demaskus – that unapologetically creates space for the underserved and underrepresented people in the theater to have the artistic license to succeed and fail, and to explore freely their artistry on their own terms. For as Shaunda says, “It is necessary for us to tell our own stories if they are going to be told. We must bear witness to what happens and what has transpired in our lives.” She has built a life buttressed by her strong, unshakeable faith and her belief that her approach to creativity isn't about struggling to convince others of her humanity, but rather a struggle to produce work and art that reflects her vision of the world. Her life and her career are not exercises in looking outward, rather they are the result of Shaunda looking inward into her innermost soul.At the Podium WebsiteAt the Podium on IGPatrick on IGFor more information contact Patrick at patrick@patrickhueyleadership.com

Today we're talking about a POWERFUL poem by Langston Hughes called, "Harlem." It's all about what happens IF we don't pursue our dreams. It's been a hugely impactful poem for me and I know it will be for you, too!

Historian and author Cedric Robinson defined the Black radical tradition as “the continuing development of a collective consciousness informed by the historical struggles for liberation.” The Black radical tradition is a rich and vibrant tapestry woven by the efforts of many Black people who raised their voices demanding freedom and equality denied to them by racial capitalism. They broke through white supremacy and forged the Black Radical Tradition. There were such giants as W. E. B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Malcolm X. And important cultural figures such as Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, and Toni Morrison. Today, the legacy of these pioneers and many others inform and inspire Black movements for liberation and justice from Ferguson to Minneapolis to Memphis.

The River Ridge girls will play for the Class AAAAAA state championship. The Knights beat Langston Hughes 60-46 in Saturday night's semifinal at the University of West Georgia, bolstered by a lockdown performance on the defensive end and a 21-point game from Sophia Pearl. The win set River Ridge (26-5) up a rematch with Lovejoy in Friday's state championship at the Macon Coliseum. The Wildcats are the reigning champions and knocked off both River Ridge and Sequoyah in the playoffs last season. The game will tip off Friday afternoon at 5:30 PM and will air statewide on Georgia Public Broadcasting. GPB will provide television coverage for all state championship basketball games. For the first time in more than 40 years, the Cherokee boys basketball team will be playing for a state championship. The Warriors earned their first trip to the state finals since 1982 with a 63-60 overtime victory over Norcross in a Class AAAAAAA semifinal Saturday at the Georgia State Convocation Center. Cherokee (25-6) will play Region 5AAAAAAA rival Wheeler next Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Macon Coliseum. The Warriors lost all three meetings with the Wildcats this season, including the region title game. It will be only the second state championship appearance for Cherokee, which lost to Campbell 68-67 in the 1982 Class AAAA title game. That team was led by the late Tony Ingle, the future coach at Kennesaw State and a Cherokee County Sports Hall of Famer. The Warriors will also try to become only the second boys GHSA state champion from Cherokee County, joining two-time champ Canton (1942, 1951).   A man was rescued by firefighters Saturday after he was buried in a collapsed trench, Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services reported. Cherokee County firefighters responded to a person trapped in a trench at about 1:30 p.m. on Hilltop Lane, off Riverlake Drive near Woodstock Saturday, according to the fire department, where they found a man "buried up to his neck." Firefighters called a trench rescue team from Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services for aid, and stabilized the area and removed dirt from around the man. First responders provided medical care and monitored the man while he was trapped until he could be removed. He was completely removed from the trench at about 3:45 p.m., according to the fire department. The man was treated and transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in stable condition. According to the fire department, the man was working on waterproofing a residential basement at the time of the incident. Police released the identification Monday of a Woodstock woman who was shot and killed Saturday at a home in Rome. A Rome Police Department report states that police arrived at 3 Shadowbrook Drive Saturday evening at 10:52 p.m. and 21-year-old Ellis Geoffery Marrs exited the residence. He told police "he had just shot someone," the report stated and police detained him before calling for backup and entering the residence. Once in the back yard, the responding officer stated a woman was attempting to perform life saving procedures on 51-year-old Iris Dail Edwards on the patio of the home. EMTs arrived on the scene and began to save Edwards. The responding officer found the firearm sitting on top of a grill with the magazine ejected. The officer then cleared a round from the gun and placed it in the trunk of their patrol vehicle. Edwards was pronounced dead on the scene by the Floyd County coroner's office. Her body was transported to the GBI Crime Lab awaiting an autopsy. Marrs was booked into the Floyd County Jail early Sunday. Marrs is charged with murder and as of early Monday he remained in the Floyd County Jail. Additional charges are pending the results of the continuing investigation. It was the second fatal shooting in four weeks in Rome. On Feb. 4, an Aragon man was killed outside a Park Homes apartment on Reservoir Street off Turner McCall Boulevard. Thomas Fountain will return to his Cherokee County roots to perform at the Canton Theatre at 7 p.m. on March 11. Fountain's performance in the Canton Theatre is arranged as a songwriter listening room to provide a more intimate listening experience for the audience. Each song's history and origin will get a deep-dive explanation at its performance. He also plans on playing unreleased music that he's written in recent months. Fountain said that he enjoys smaller venues where he is able to personalize the audience experience more. His local sponsors will also have merchant booths set up at the theater during his concert. Since the start of his musical career, Fountain has toured 10 states with performers like Chris Stapleton and Charlie Daniels. His most recent single, “Window Pane,” was released on Sept. 24, 2021. His music video for “It Don't Matter,” which was self-produced by Fountain and recorded in Cherokee County, was posted on YouTube on June 10, 2021. The singer described his music as something that sounds and feels more like 90s country than the modern direction of the genre. Growing up on musical influences like Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks, Fountain said that this style has always found its way back into his own compositions. Reserved seating is sold out but general admission tickets are still available for purchase through eventbrite for $20, not including taxes and fees. A private pre-show meet and greet with Fountain can be added on for an additional $20. A gift bag raffle ticket can be purchased for $10 as well as a full-sized signed event poster for $15. The Etowah boys' state title dreams came to an end Saturday night they it fell 56-53 to Alexander in a Class AAAAAA semifinal heartbreaker at the University of West Georgia. It was a tight game throughout, with Etowah (22-10) leading 10-7 after the first quarter. Alexander's size advantage was clear from the start, with 6-foot-8 forward Braedan Lue controlling the board. Lue scored the Cougars' first five points and finished the night with 18 points. Brandon Rechsteiner led Etowah with 15 points in his final high school game before heading to Virginia Tech. Dimitri Angelakos scored 13 points, followed by Aiden Weaver, who added 10 points. Alexander (27-5) will play Lee County for the state championship Friday at the Macon Coliseum. Lue shined in crunch time. Down four points with under 2 minutes to go, he single-handedly took the lead for the Cougars, scoring through contact and converting the three-point to make the score 54-53 in their favor. The Eagles were forced to foul, and after a few attempts to get into the bonus, Marvin McGhee IV broke free for a dunk. Out of a timeout, Rechsteiner got a near half-court shot up, but it rimmed out, and Etowah's run was over. It was an emotional ending for Dasinger and the Eagles, with the core of Rechsteiner, Etter, Clemmons, Kyle Tipper and others all seniors. #CherokeeCounty #Georgia #LocalNews           -          -          -          -          -          -          The Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast is local news for Woodstock, Canton, and all of Cherokee County. Register Here for your essential digital news.             This podcast was produced and published for the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger and TribuneLedgerNews.com by BG Ad Group     For more information be sure to visit https://www.bgpodcastnetwork.com/    https://cuofga.org/   https://www.drakerealty.com/   https://www.esogrepair.com/         See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The River Ridge girls will play for the Class AAAAAA state championship. The Knights beat Langston Hughes 60-46 in Saturday night's semifinal at the University of West Georgia, bolstered by a lockdown performance on the defensive end and a 21-point game from Sophia Pearl. #CherokeeCounty #Georgia #LocalNews           -          -          -          -          -          -          The Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast is local news for Woodstock, Canton, and all of Cherokee County. Register Here for your essential digital news.             This podcast was produced and published for the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger and TribuneLedgerNews.com by BG Ad Group     For more information be sure to visit https://www.bgpodcastnetwork.com/    https://cuofga.org/   https://www.drakerealty.com/   https://www.esogrepair.com/         See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, host, Christopher Michaelson, intermixes his commentary with a recording of a panel discussion taken during an in-person event at the Guthrie Theater in May 2022. The special event titled, A Raisin in the Sun: Panel Discussion and Performance, was an experiential opportunity aimed at helping shape the role of business in cultivating racial justice and social equity in the Twin Cities community. Esteemed panelists included Austene Van, director of A Raisin in the Sun, founder of the New Dawn Theater Company, and producing artistic director of the Yellow Tree Theater; Dr. Yohuru Williams, founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas; and panel moderator, Tina Burnside, cofounder and curator of the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery (MAAHMG).A Raisin in the Sun overview:"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"In 1951, poet Langston Hughes posed these questions, and Lorraine Hansberry answered with a theatrical masterpiece that broke down racial barriers both on and off stage. The play follows the three-generation Younger family as they grapple with different definitions of the American dream and how to achieve it. When the matriarch, Lena, buys a home in an all-white neighborhood, the Youngers are greeted by thinly veiled racism and financial pitfalls that threaten to pull the family apart and push their dream out of reach.  With special thanks to the generous sponsors for the evenings' events: Guthrie Theater, Robins Kaplan, Ryan Companies, SPS Commerce, Sunrise Banks, Target, US Bank, Verizon, the Racial Justice Initiative, and the Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership.

In this episode Lissa talks with playwright and author Pearl Cleage about Blues for an Alabama Sky, her current work and references to inspirations and influencers including Langston Hughes, Stacey Abrams, Ntozake Shange, Viola Davis, audience development and more. Blues for an Alabama Sky is playing on the Wurtele Thrust stage at the Guthrie through March 12, 2023 Tickets: https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/performance-calendar/ Go Deeper www.BlackMarketReads.com 

PROJECT AUDION 39 - Little Ham from Harlem, by Langston Hughes Premiered Feb 10, 2023 Project Audion presents a world premiere of an unrealized radio play by the famed Black poet Langston Hughes. What might radio drama's Golden Age of the 1930s, '40s and '50s have sounded like had Black creators been allowed time on the airwaves? Back then, radio was almost exclusively a stage for White entertainers, with only a handful of secondary roles and occasional guest appearances offered to people of color. In 1943, Langston Hughes took the lead characters from a successful theatrical comedy he had written eight years earlier - "Little Ham from Harlem" - and proposed creating a daily soap opera around them. Hamlet Jones of the Singing Shoe Shine Parlor, and Tiny Lee, his "stout but beautiful" lady friend, would have been the main focus of radio's first Black soap opera. It would have taken the radio audience around Harlem life as Hughes knew it, encompassing everything from numbers-running to local night spots. But "Little Ham" would have not been just a soap opera. It was also full of comedy, and each episode was deliberately scripted to feature songs from the cast worked into the action. Langston Hughes wrote the show's first two 15 minute episodes, then shopped his concept to networks, syndicators, and advertising agencies. But in the 1940s, no one would take a chance on such a progressive idea. As Hughes noted some years later, 'My Agents stated flatly "It is just abut impossible to sell a Negro writer to Hollywood or radio, and they use Negro subject matter very rarely."' His two completed scripts for "Little Ham" were filed away, unproduced and unheard. Now Project Audion brings the show to life for the first time. "Little Ham from Harlem" features the talents of Black actors from across America, and is preceded by an interview with Dr. Vanessa Valdez, Director of City College of New York's annual Langston Hughes festival, who offers insights into Langston Hughes' work and impact. Our cast features: LITTLE HAM: Lee J. Green, NE BUSTER: Robert Stevenson, IN SHINGLE: Willie Macon, FL PAPA MACK: Carl Thomas, TX TINY LEE: Yle Blackburn, CT SUGAR LOU: Tabetha McNeal, VA LAWYER / STRANGER: Sean Massey, TX ANNOUNCER / CUSTOMER: Norval Soleyn, NY with production and direction by Larry Groebe in Texas

In this week's episode, Bishop Michael Bellamy hosts a roundtable with two single brothers, Tyrone Neil and Mike Wallace, to discuss their views on marriage and how to build strong, lasting relationships. At the conclusion of the episode, we will also feature a poem by Langston Hughes titled "I, Too," which is read by Maurice Clanton, in celebration of Black History Month.

Michael talks with Matthew E. Henry about teaching high school, becoming drawn to the immediacy of poetry, advanced degrees in poetry and theology and education, a chapbook leading to his first full-length poetry collection, teaching and learning in mostly white educational spaces, a book as a prompt for recurring forms to access content, writing in conversation with the work of Langston Hughes, narrative arc and lyric depth in poetry, sarcasm as a poetic tool, and more.Matthew E. Henry is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022), Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). He has two collections forthcoming in 2023 from New York Quarterly Books and Harbor Editions. MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 12, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the public statement made by the African Union (AU) encouraging the continuation of dialogue related to the Ethiopian peace accord signed in Pretoria and Nairobi during late 2022; the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has postponed a demonstration after meeting with Prime Abiy Ahmed; reports from Niger say that a number of soldiers have been killed by rebel fighters inside this West African state; and the governments of the Republic of Sudan and the Russian Federation have held talks on plans for a joint Red Sea development project. In the second and third hours we continue our focus on African American History Month. We look back on the life, times and contributions of Hallie Quinn Brown (1850-1949), an African American Women's historian, organizer and public speaker. Finally, we review the role of Langston Hughes (1901-1967) in African American history, social sciences and culture as a poet, playwright, composer and public intellectual.

Larry Groebe is back with Project Audion's look into African American Month. Black poet Langston Hughes, who did write a few special radio programs, also tried to sell a full-fledged Black soap opera. Times being what they were, there were no takers. But his two pilot scripts got stashed away in an archive, and over Christmas I requested and received copies. And so, for the first time, we can hear his proposed show "Little Ham from Harlem" - a comedic soap opera set at a shoe shine stand. Yes, a radio soap opera - but one about Black lives in the 1940s. It's a glimpse at an alternate radio universe with people of color in leading roles - in fact, in ALL roles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Several Black and African voices have contributed to Western theatre. Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Langston Hughes...these are all big names, but there's one among them to whom they owe a debt of gratitude. Who was Publius Terentius Afer, better known in the English-speaking world as Terence? Find out in today's episode! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historylovescompany/support

Pastor Craig Hadley discusses the Sermon on the Mount and tells stories from Langston Hughes, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Martin Luther, and what all of it has to do with us in 2023. Sermon from February 4, 2023 at Paradox Church

Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello celebrate "Black History Month" with this special episode. Comedian Sam Jay (Saturday Night Live) discusses developing a whole new kind of late night show with her HBO series PAUSE with Sam Jay; writer and publisher Jelani Memory (A Kids Book About Racism) explains how he launched a book series for parents and kids to tackle heavy topics; cellist and folk musician Leyla McCalla brings the musicality of Langston Hughes' poetry to life with "Song for a Dark Girl" from her Smithsonian Folkways album Vari-Colored Songs; and instrumental duo Black Violin unpack the intersection of hip hop and classical music, before performing the titular track of their album Stereotypes.

Today's meditation comes from The Book Of Proverbs in The Old Testament and from the writings of Langston Hughes, with music by Outside The Sky.Passage: “In their hearts, people plan their destination, but the Lord directs their steps.” —Proverbs 16:9Perspective: “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” ―Langston HughesMusic: “In Loving Remembrance” by Outside The SkyNarrator: Ryan Phipps

In this episode, Mark is joined by Hip Hop artist Shaw Calhoune. In his third appearance on the show, Shaw talks about his new album "Fly Langston", the jazz feel of it, Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance, past and future projects as well as Shaw's picks for which teams will be left standing in The NBA playoffs this year. Check out Shaw Calhoune on Bandcamp for his album "Fly Langston" and more- https://shawcalhoune.bandcamp.com/album/fly-langstonMark also talks about seeing "Disney on Ice" and what he wants to see "On Ice" next.

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In this episode we talk to Coach Boone Williams, the Head Football Coach at the reigning 6A Georgia State Champions.

We're joined by Robert Justice for a fun chat all about his novel They Can't Take Your Name, wrongful convictions, the historic Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Langston Hughes, podcasting, and a stinky corpse flower. Plus – Dave's students get stuck in the school elevator and can't stop screaming, Laura can't keep the family together … Continue reading Ep. 197 How To Stop And Smell The Corpse Flowers With Robert Justice

Co-hosts Ilyana Kadushin and James Harrell perform the podcast live in concert at The Brick Room in Salisbury, Maryland. A concert of original music and storytelling that engages the audience. The songs and stories are both deeply personal, sharing everything from addiction and marriage to social commentary and are meant to find common ground, bringing both humor and heart to most pressing issues today.  All Music and Lyrics by James Harrell and Ilyana Kadushin (*except for Lyrics of Black Crow- Joni Mitchell, Poem of Call to Creation by Langston Hughes, Lift Every Voice lyrics by James Weldon Johnson) Please subscribe and share the podcast with your friends, rate and review us where you listen, we really appreciate it! Originally aired January 2018. Ilyana Kadushin and James Harrell are a multi-disciplinary performing arts duo who just happen to be a married couple. This dynamic couple cohosts & produces the No, I Know Podcast Show. A show about connections and empowerment of community.The show features interviews with entrepreneurs, creatives and leaders, music and theatrical performances mingled with husband and wife banter.

On February 9, The City College of New York holds its 44th Langston Hughes Festival and awards its Langston Hughes Medal to a highly distinguished writer of the African diaspora: Lynn Nottage. With a mission to celebrate and expand upon the legacy of Harlem Renaissance icon and "poet laureate of Harlem" Langston Hughes, the Festival awarded its first medal, in 1978, to James Baldwin, followed by an honor roll of the greatest Black writers of our time—among them Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Rita Dove. In this episode, host Vincent Boudreau, president of City College, previews the 2023 festival by convening a conversation with Nottage and Jodi-Ann Francis, associate director of the CCNY Black Studies Program —one of the first established in the U.S. Francis is also the moderator of the Langston Hughes Festival symposium, prior to the award ceremony. Hear from Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, how she centers Black lives, listens deeply to create resonant characters, and views her work as both artist and activist. Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Jodi-Ann Francis, Associate Director of the CCNY Black Studies Program; Lynn Nottage, playwright, screenwriter, librettist, and 2023 Langston Hughes Medalist Recorded: January 19, 2023

Chelsey and Sara discuss Langston Hughes's 1930 novel: Not Without Laughter,  the story of a young boy coming of age in small-town Kansas with his matriarchal family. His mother Annjee works as a maid and cook for a wealthy white family, his grandmother Hager takes in laundry work, and his Aunt Harriet has big dreams of performing. His wandering father, Jimboy makes appearances as does his upper class Aunt Tempy. As a collective, these characters reveal varied philosophies and histories of the Black diasporic experience.  We expected to enjoy Hughes' use of language and imagery, but we did not anticipate the rich tapestry of history and themes explored in this  short classic. We hope you take something away from this spoiler-free episode before, during, or after listening, whether you choose to pick up the book or one of our contemporary pairings. These pairings include complex families in fiction, sweeping historical accounts, and blues-y musings on the power of music.  Are you ready for deeper reading in 2023? This spring we're exploring the world of Classic Children's Literature in your podcast feed and with our Patreon community. Together, we're learning to be better, more critical and thorough readers of classic and contemporary literature. We love discussing books and reading with all of you and hope you'll join our group of nerdy readers at patreon.com/novelpairings. Annual subscriptions are now available at a discounted price.  Pairings Timestamp: 29:50 . . . Books Mentioned: A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby Perish by Latoya Watkins Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong   Links & Things Mentioned: "Done Made Us Leave Our Home": Langston Hughes's Not without Laughter--Unifying Image and Three Dimensions - R. Baxter Miller (JSTOR)

Coach Parker talks to the 2022 State Champions. In this episode, Coach Boone, Head Coach at Langston Hughes talks about their championship 2022 season, offense, defense, advice for coaches, and more!

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Let's talk about "I, Too". A short poem by Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMet0ADPNZI&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YA78br-dPR_Aj0FFXVN_Ogj ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Join our Patreon to pick our reads.

Diamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free?Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout these poems, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the “Other Side,” as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other Black women who have been murdered by police. Sharp's poetry is self-assured, playful, and imaginative, reminiscent of Langston Hughes with its precision and brevity. The book explores purgatorial, in-between spaces that the speaker occupies as she struggles to find a place and time where she can live safely and freely. With her skillful use of repetition, particularly in her series of concrete poems, lines and voices echo across the book so the reader, too, feels suspended within Sharp's lyric moments. Super Sad Black Girl is a compassionate and ethereal depiction of mental illness from a promising and powerful poet.Join us for this livestream of the in-person book launch event for Super Sad Black Girl with Diamond Sharp, Eve Ewing, Raych Jackson and Jamila Woods. -------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Diamond Sharp is a poet and essayist from Chicago. Super Sad Black Girl is her debut collection of poems. Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and most recently a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Rachel “Raych” Jackson is a writer, educator and performer. Her poems have gained over 2 million views on YouTube. She is the 2017 NUPIC Champion and a 2017 Pink Door fellow. Jackson recently voiced 'DJ Raych' in the Jackbox game, Mad Verse City. She voices Tiffany in Battu, an upcoming animation recently picked up by Cartoon Network. Her latest play, “Emotions & Bots”, premiered at the Woerdz Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. Jamila Woods is a Chicago-bred singer/songwriter and award-winning poet whose inspirations include Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison. Following the 2016 release of her debut album HEAVN, Woods received critical acclaim for her singular sound that is both rooted in soul and wholly modern. Her 2019 sophomore release LEGACY! LEGACY! featured 12 tracks named after writers, thinkers, and visual artists who have influenced her life and work. She is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and co-editor of BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic (2018). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/W_yl0SZR050 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

I like to say we're living in a precedent time, not an unprecedented one. How do we understand that? Being at the museum or writing histories both in poetry and in non-fiction are ways of trying to understand that.  “Gatekeepers” hold an essential role in our culture as those in positions of power who determine what we see and hear — and therefore how we understand our world. The poet Kevin Young holds dual gatekeeping roles as both director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the poetry editor for The New Yorker magazine.  In this episode, Young talks about how he holds these responsibilities and likens reading a poem to entering into a museum. He also shares his belief in the power of unexpected transformations, which songs have brought him comfort, and how it's always easiest to write about the place you've just left.  References: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Public Enemy Chuck D Parliament Funkadelic African American Vernacular English Sister Sonya Sanchez Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Harriet Tubman's shawl David Hammonds' African American Flag Willie Nelson Earth, Wind and Fire John Coltrane's Love Supreme I Want You - Marvin Gay Mary Lou Williams Jean-Michel Basquiat Make Good the Promises Ida B. Wells Book of Hours - Kevin Young Stones - Kevin Young

Trae Holiday is joined by Appollonia Washington from A 4 Apple Learning Center to discuss their upcoming giveback event. Trae is also joined by Anthony Tibbs who is the CEO of Dope Culture LLC about The Evolution of Neo Soul event on January 14th and 15th at Langston Hughes. #BlackMediaMatters

Everything Black includes rage, love, family, futures, magic, revolution, dignity--as suggested in the table of contents for Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination (Yale University Press, 2022) by Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova University. In this episode of OP Talks, Matt Vega talks to Dr, Lloyd about the book, which delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Black writing and action, including the philosophy underlying the Black Lives Matter movement. He explores the way Black writers like Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, and Audre Lorde have dealt with themes outlined by the items in the table of contents. Dr. Lloyd argues that Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity. READ MORE “Black Dignity: A Conversation with Vincent W. Lloyd.” Yale University Press, 15 November 2022. Sirvent, Roberto. “BAR Book Forum: Vincent Lloyd's Book, “Black Dignity.” Black Agenda Report, 19 October 2022. Tinner-Williams, Nate. “Interview: Dr. Vincent W. Lloyd, on his new book 'Black Dignity'.” Black Catholic Messenger, 22 November 2022. Vega, Matthew. “Vincent Lloyd's Dictionary of Black Dignity.” Sojourners, 22 December 2022.

Black Nativity, a gospel song-play based on a script by Langston Hughes originally titled, Wasn't That a Mighty Day, with music arranged by the show's stars, Marion Williams and Alex Bradford, was produced by Michael Santangelo and Barbara Griner. The show used two gospel singing groups: The Stars of Faith and the Bradford Singers and also starred Princess Stewart. It was directed by Vinnete Carroll and opened for a limited run on Broadway at the 41st St. Theatre in December 1961 to critical and popular acclaim. The original name for the Song-Play was "Wasn't It A Mighty Day?" Langston Hughes was a well-known agnostic, however wrote about Black culture and practices. He knew that in the Black culture the history of gospel and music was strong. Langston combined Black spirituality and religious traditions to demonstrate the Christmas Story from a Black person's view. Using those tools combined he wanted to share the story of the birth of Jesus presenting in musically and using a gospel choir to portray the story. Much of the research done for this show was captured from various websites such as The New York Public Library, Dramatic Publishing Co. and A Study series presented by Congo Square Theater (Chicago, IL) documentation. •Please send me an email sharing your thoughts about this show segment also if you have any suggestions of future guests you would like to hear on the show. Send an email to letstalk2gmg@gmail.com •What's new is a Let's Talk: Gospel Music Gold Radio Show on WMRM-DB Internet Radio station which comes on Saturday Mornings at 9:00AM CST --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letstalk2gmg-ansonia/message

Within seriousness, there's little room for play, but within play there's tremendous room for seriousness. It's through the act of serious play that wonderful ideas are born.  Carrie Mae Weems is one of today's most influential and generous contemporary American artists, as devoted to her own craft as she is to introducing other artists into the world. Her photography and diverse visual media has won her numerous awards including the Rome Prize, a MacArthur genius grant, and four honorary doctorates, and she was even named one of the 100 most influential women of all time by Ebony magazine.    In this episode, Weems explores the struggles artists must maintain to find balance and reach an audience, how the field cannot advance without the deep and profound inclusion of Black artists, and what the concept of “grace” means to her and her mother.   References: Dawoud Bey The Black Photographers Annual Joe Crawford Roy DeCarava Anthony Barboza Ming Smith Langston Hughes's ‘Black Nativity' Cassandra Myth

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 25, 2022 is: nativity • nuh-TIV-uh-tee • noun Nativity is most commonly used in its capitalized form to refer to the birth of Jesus, but it can also be used as a synonym of birth meaning “the process or circumstances of being born,” and to one's place of origin. In astrology nativity refers to the horoscope at or of the time of one's birth. // My favorite Christmas decorations as a child were the ceramic figurines of the Nativity scene, especially the donkey with the gentle eyes. // Having emigrated from Finland when she was only a toddler, Anna was excited to finally travel to Helsinki, the city of her nativity. See the entry > Examples: “‘Black Nativity' is an African-American telling of the nativity story, based on the song play written by African-American poet and playwright Langston Hughes. The first act of the show recreates the journey of Mary and Joseph, resplendent in African costumes, to Bethlehem, accompanied by old-fashioned spirituals.” — Carolyn Cunningham, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 27 Sept. 2022 Did you know? Nativity is one of many words born of the Latin verb nāscī, which means “to be born.” The gestation of the word was a long one. Nāscī developed in Late Latin into nativitas, meaning “birth,” which passed through Anglo-French as nativité before entering English in the 14th century. Nativity has many siblings and cousins in our language; other terms of the lineage of nāscī include nature, innate, nascent, native, and renaissance.

In the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, American men famously flooded recruiting offices across the nation to join the war effort. These stories are well documented and attested by eye witnesses, but a part of this story left out or overlooked is that black Americans joined with an equal level of fervor. Over one million black men and women served in the war, playing crucial roles in every theatre of World War 2. They worked in segregated units and performed vital support jobs.This mobilization did take time. This was during the Jim Crow era, and some black Americans asked if they should risk their lives to live as what one called “Half-American.” But as the war effort grew, black Americans increasingly enlisted as part of what newspapers called the Double V Campaign, a slogan to promote the fight for democracy abroad but also in the home front in the United States and the idea that black Americans wholeheartedly contributing to the war effort would lead to legal and social equality.Today's guest is Matthew Delmont, author of “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad – the first-ever comprehensive history of World War II to focus on black Americans.We look at stories figures such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated violence against black troops and veterans; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to black pilots; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for black soldiers, veterans, and their families; James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper set in motion the Double Victory campaign; and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing.Some of their greatest struggles came when they returned home. They were denied housing and education. On the streets of Southern cities, black soldiers were attacked just for wearing their uniforms in public, beaten for drinking from “Whites Only” water fountains, or chased away from the voting booth by mobs. Yet without black Americans' crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have been victorious.

Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the “Good War” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022) is American history as you've likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families; James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign; and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary reading. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of history at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the “Good War” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022) is American history as you've likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families; James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign; and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary reading. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of history at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the “Good War” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022) is American history as you've likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families; James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign; and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary reading. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of history at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the “Good War” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022) is American history as you've likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families; James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign; and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary reading. Omari Averette-Phillips is a graduate student in the department of history at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Langston Hughes head football coach Boone Williams to talk about his team's GHSA 6A state title game, how the Panthers won it all vs. Gainesville, his electric offense, building the program, Air Noland and Jelani Thurman's greatness, the future of the program and much more. Host: Chase Thomas Guest: Boone Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode, we are honored to be joined by the incredible, Turner Prize-nominated artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien. Born in 1960 in London, Isaac is one of the leading artists working in film and video today. His 1989 film Looking for Langston garnered a cult following with this poetic exploration of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. Over the past three decades he has made work using multi-screen installations to express fractured narratives exploring memory and desire. Earlier this year, he was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia to create a work to celebrate the museums' centennial. Titled Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), the immersive five-screen installation b explored the relationship between the museum's founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, and the famed philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke. In even more exciting news, next year, Isaac will be the subject of a solo exhibition at London's Tate Britain in April, presenting a survey of his work from the last 40 years. Isaac was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2017 and was knighted by the Queenin the 2022 for services to diversity and inclusion in art. Some artists, curators, and actors discussed in this episode: Sankofa Film and Video Collective Maggie Cheung David Bowie and Marc Bolan Barry Jenkins Mark Nash James Franco Tilda Swinton For images, artworks, and more behind the scenes goodness, follow @artfromtheoutsidepodcast on Instagram. Enjoy!

Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Gainesville head football coach Josh Niblett to talk about the GHSA 6A title game vs. Langston Hughes, what went wrong in the game, why Year 1 was so good for the Red Elephants, why Baxter Wright is a lot like Max Duggan, what makes Jeremiah Telander special and much more. Host: Chase Thomas Guest: Josh Niblett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Performed live in La Salle's Auditorium Monday, December 12th Combined Ensembles I'm Still Standing Elton John & Bernie Taupin Arr. Pete Schmutte O Come, All Ye Faithful John Reading Arr. John Kinyon Rockin' Around the Christmas Johnny Marks Do You Hear What I Hear Noel Regney & Gloria Shayne Arr. Craig Courtney Advanced Chorus/Belcrofters In Time of Silver Rain Sarah Quartel Poem by Langston Hughes (1902-1967) O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Arr. Noah Reese We Three Kings John Hopkins Arr. Andy Beck It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Eddie Pola & George Wyle Angels We Have Heard on High Traditional French Carol Arr. Dean Baskerville Combined Ensembles Little Saint Nick Brian Wilson Arr. Jay Althouse Silent Night Franz Gruber Arr. Tom Booth Born, Born in Bethlehem American Spiritual Arr. Donald Moore A Holly Jolly Celebration Johnny Marks Arr. Douglas Wagner White Christmas Irving Berlin

Lush bring battle rapper RX to talk about her career, the industry, projects and more! ---- 00:00 Intro 1:01 - The name RX comes from having the prescription for these b*tches and honoring Malcolm X  2:38 - Being black and Mexican, her dad meeting her mom and immediately marrying her 5:44 - Growing up in the 90s with all the racial tension, riots etc 13:13 - The differences between Compton and LA, culture, swag and lingo, Compton accent  20:18 - Being real bar heavy always being into lyrics, being influenced by 2pac, Langston Hughes inspire her poetry  22:58 - The Battle rap scene in Compton back in the day, going to the Pit at 15-16yrs old 27:01 - Getting her masters degree, freestyling at her graduate party someone putting it online 31:18 - Not immersing her son into the battle rap world too much coz it's cruel, going to battle rap events few days before her due date  33:36 - Misogyny in rap, guys trying to present opportunities with weird intentions  37:20 - Defining moment being the RX vs Bonnie, battlers coming out of retirement for her  41:57 - Slowing down on battles, having a job the whole time, opening up her own business 45:45 - Not relying on battle rap to pay her bills, being super holistic, Cevyn Wonders brand 56:12 - Having the self control to battle rap, it being entertainment, West coast battle rap coming a long way, inspiring the youth  1:00:44 - Her own edible line --- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices