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Adventures in Poetry

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3/5. "I, Too, SingAmerica". By Langston Hughes.
Written in answerto Whitman's I Hear America Singing Hughes's poem contains that now famous, bold assertion "black is beautiful". Peggy Reynolds , with the help of Hughes devotees, sets out to understand what produced that shout of joyful defiance. Repeated from Sunday

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Langston Hughes.
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