Video URL


90001_12971 Langston Hughes The Dream Keeper_04
Subjects

1988
B&W
Color

A 1988 documentary about the life and work of Langston Hughes. During an interview, Hughes explains that there is pressure put upon young African American writers to not write as African Americans, but just as Americans. He explains that he writes about Harlem because that's where he lives, and he likes Harlem.