Thoughtful Thursday: Commemorating the Fourth of July with Langston Hughes
It's Independence Day! We celebrate this Thoughtful Thursday on our nation's birthday with two poems from one of our most beloved poets, Langston Hughes (1902-1967). In "I Too", Hughes imagines a future in which he will truly be seen as an American. In "Let America Be America Again", he laments that the principals of freedom on which our nation was [...]