We invite famWe invite famed Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez to discuss with us Langston Hughes’ “Harlem.” Langston Hughes is possibly one of the most important forebears of the Harlem Renaissance. He honored black vernacular, and wrote poetry for the page and for the stage. Poetry, for Hughes, was not an academic subject, but a social instrument he used for his people and his whole nation. Sanchez speaks to how Hughes' radicalism, and his readiness to name the heavy load Black people carried, ...