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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". why tf can i edit this

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The dream keeper
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I Continue To Dream
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I, Too 508 ViewsRate it
Dream Boogie 421 ViewsRate it
For Selma 399 ViewsRate it
Freedom's Plow
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Cycle
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Trumpet Player
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Feet o' Jesus 242 ViewsRate it
Mother to Son
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Lincoln Monument: Washington 205 ViewsRate it
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