Langston Hughes Speaking at UCLA 2/16/1967
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- With a closing from Louis Lomax.
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
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He sounds like a person you would very much would like to have as a friend. He seems very friendly and kind.
I'm currently reading his autobiography and thought the same thing
What a great historical document
It’s so great to hear Langston Hughes voice !!!
This is such a treat. Have grown up studying his work, but never actually heard his voice. This is wonderful! ☺
This is a national treasure and should be shared with as many people as possible. I is magical and inspiring.
I just did a report on him .Just magical is all I can say.I wish I had been alive to see him in person.Truly a gift he was.Magical!!
Jeff Bach I cry when I think about the fact that I can't meet him, too long. Have you read his auto biographies?
A gentleman and a scholar, who I would dearly have loved to meet.
This is treasure!! Feeds my soul. Protect this ❤️❤️❤️😍😍🙌🏾
A great poet! The poem, "I, too, am America.," was presented as a questions for students to enter College in 2012 in the Brazilian High school national examination known as ENEM. His poems contain things that are still present in our today's. It's very good to see some of his poems read by him. I found the mentioned poem and I am going to give it to the students as a part of the content of my class as a reference for future questions that might come up in other examinations. Thanks a lot for this video. A big hug from Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Wow! That's awesome. In Brazil? That hardly ever happens here in the USA! I've often said that our cultural creativity is often appreciated in other land more than in the USA. A big hug right back at you from the USA.
It was in NY, jan 1992... I'm still grateful to the one who made me know Langston Hughes poetry with the jazz LP "Weary Blues". Marvellous album composed and arranged by Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather in the late 50's.
Thank you Alison !
wow.. He passed away only three months after this speech. We are lucky to have been able to here this.
Yes, May 22, 1967 due to complications after abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer.
I just looked up the same. I thought Google was in error for a second when I saw he died in 1967. WOW. Imagine if he knew he would die 3 months later.
Watching Louis Gate's Many Rivers to Cross on PBS and thus poet was referenced. Listening to this, I can fathom his brilliance in poetry and holding audiences spellbound.
He speaks of police brutality and riots in '67, here we're in 2020 still fighting this menace in America.
My absolute Favorite Poet,this was throughly enjoyed,you go Langston 💯
"A spirit like Langston's"
By Kenya Sims
Sometimes I feel
Like giving up
And succoming
By the wasteside
Because life leaves
Me so discouraged
And I just want
To stop and hide
But then I lift
My head a little
And consider...
When his life
Could have ended
Over and over
Langston
Kept going
And
Rejection
After rejection
Langston kept
Going
He battled hunger
Homelessness
And unfair treatment
But he kept on going
He battled illness
Abandonment-
Unfair responsibilities
But he kept on going
And not only that
He never let life
Take his smile
His song
His laugh
He lived in the
Heart of Jim Crowism
And he laughed
Sang
And loved
And if Langston
Could not only
Survive
But thrive
And share his gift
With the entire
World
In spite of
Unimaginable
Opposition
Then I can face
These little things
And I can
Keep going too
Beautiful
oh snap! He mentioned "a young lady named Alice Walker" right after the 7 mark
I know I came here to read the comments to see if anyone else heard that! What an amazing endorsement!
Langston Hughes mentions, "A new talent...Alice Walker.." at 7:27 seconds. Alice Walker is 21 years old in 1967. Embracing one's Blackness, police brutality, racism, housing issues, white flight, Fisk, Spelman [African American Students ]raised social consciousness of the world during sit-ins as Freedom Fighters...he says so much.
Good observation mischico! Nice.
I caught that too. It put things into perspective as to how they all existed in the same timeline. It's interesting that most of my literary influences are from this era or before. I wonder what happened to the generation that was responsible for raising us 90s kids. 🤷🏾♂️
He mentioned Leroi Jones (later Amiri Baracka) as well. Not sure who David Henderson is, though.
EDIT: ah, so David co-founded the Black Arts Movement with Jones/Baracka
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Amazing find and valuable historical item. Mr. Hughes died from cancer 95 days later, on May 22, 1967.
Really glad to hear this from Langston Hughes
What a great treasure for our people and our country!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this!!!
I LOVE LANGSTON HUGHES I WISH I HAD BEEN ABLE TO MEET HIM.
Tomorrow is 54 years since this presentation.:)
That’s progressive California’s UCLA Giving a backhanded compliment labeling him as “great for a black artist” and not simply for what he is..a great author & artist.
Happy Birthday Langston ✨🌹
He starts talking at 3:40
great poet and, speaker so inspiring .
Gm edagdwg thanks for sharing this History of life God is always around I'm blessed to hear this person speak to people that love life God bless his soul that is a real rapper God is always teaching me a new Linda j peace so blessed to hear this
This is so interesting to hear Langston Hughes. His poems are so good, but I do have my favorites as many of you do. My 5th graders, years ago, learned many of his works and would read poetry at our Poetry Program held each spring in Texas. The students would read to the audience from Langston Hughes and other classic poets' works. It was such a fun evening. Thank you, Langston, for your American contributions.
Thanks so much for this wonderful gift! Langston Hughes also wrote some terrific short stories. Another favorite is "Thank You Ma'am!" He is magnificent in his work and sounds like a very kind, generous, and cheerful person in his speech! ❤️
My favorite poet!
(Poems)
4:23 (Motto)
5:38
17:40 (dressed up)
18:18
19:15
32:45
39:40
44:40
46:20
50:33
52:02
55:20
1:02:07
1:05:18
1:14:40
My grandpa tell it's like it's is.real hero
Sooooooooo blessed to hear older people talking about what is sad nothing has changed because the government has made sure things stay the same Linda j peace God at work still happening to people that don't want to believe you don't count
Thank you You Tube for sharing this sad story of life God is always around pray changes everything and people knowing god for yourself is a gift from God soooooooo blessed to hear this man telling the truth about life Linda j peace 🦋🦋🦋❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯
Wow how Very inspiring his words on racism back in the 30's still ring true for today it's a sad reality that nothing has changed ☹️💯
I love me some Langston Hughes he's the poetic version of Adam Clayton Powell Jr🥰❤️🖤💚 I love my black, brown and tan people
This is refreshing and very educational. I am please.
Telling the truth about what you feel about yourself and were your heart is only God can take you places no one else can take you hearing this story just to what is happening around the world today God bless him love is real Linda j peace ❤️💯🌈🐻🌹
How life changes everything you think about this is the gift God bless us with his presence God is always around pray changes everything and people the world hasent changed still happening today no matter what people say about you Linda j peace
24:20 talking about harlem
27:00 speaks on father not being supportive of his writing career
Thanks
It is now 2022. If I didn't know what year this was from, I would think it was today. Why has nothing changed? Why are we still putting up with these situations, WHY?
1967 a few months before he passed away
This keeps the black pride going.
Happy birthday Langston Hughes
To me, Langston Hughes is my way to be a lecturer, I’m working on his plays in order to get Master degree
excellent from australia
Oh man the stuff you could say back then.
What fuckin' pussies can't or won't say what they mean now?
He didn't have to put that girl on blast like that. He in his feelings fasho.
This presentation is three months before his death.
Fantastic. Unbelievable. Yes.
He gave this speech one Frederick Douglass’ birthday
We speak your name!
Who was speaking at the end?
Matter what people say about this world God is always around if you were dark skin people still have to live this way sad but true Linda j peace
Langston was quite funny
This is what people are still living this life learn something new everyday sad seeing people today still trying to get white people to be in there lifes sad story today being yourself is a gift from God yes tell the truth about what is happening around the world today God still helping teaching his children to be Linda j peace
But they us them the same way you are treated her do what I say sad being yourself is a real job because your own people are watching and doing the same thing to your own people to get along with white people that still hate you sad Linda j peace telling the truth about what is happening around the world is crying for help so blessed to know God is always taking me on trips to pay attention what is still happening around this world Linda j peace only God knows what is coming ❤️💯🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🐻
1:02:10
I like who but the lord..
I'm not impressed--neither by his simplistic poetry, nor his so-called achievements. He only needed to take care of one person: himself. Immigrant families have come to America for generations, from all over the world. They've had to work long hours at menial jobs, to care for multiple family members, and to save to bring other family members to America. They are the real silent majority among non Native Americans. (That's the truth, and the truth is like poetry--and few like either.)
A man who turned his back on his pronounced beliefs, that he supported and endorsed, and that he lead others, like hungry sheep, into.
He chose self-preservation over what he told others he believed, and touted.
Communism was a career ender for artist in this country at one time.
Perhaps...he may have believed in what he lead others to have LOUD faith in....
but when he was called to the line on it...
he chose self-preservation, over continuing in being an apostle of his...beliefs.
He was known to change his AVID stance on other things...so...
...it is what it is.
Martin Luther King...he wasn't.
Just to waste time:Something that I noticed, because of course I am a musician, my ears are perked in a way.I gradually realized through listening, that Langston Hughes sounds alot like Duke Ellington verbiage and cadence. Listen to L Hughes in this, and listen to a TV, Duke Ellington Interview. Sounds preposterous but, I think L Hughes liked jazz so much, that he wanted to sound like Duke Ellington when he spoke.Listen🦻😇🤔👌👍