He was the first Black writer ... One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro Speaks ...

But buried in an unrelated archive I recently discovered a searing essay condemning racism in America by Langston Hughes—the moving account, published in its original form here for the first ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.25.1.0126 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/langhughrevi.25.1.0126 Alain Locke, “Enter the New Negro,” in “Harlem ...