National Poetry Month's African American Spotlight: Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, & James Baldwin

A Special event celebrating National Poetry Month – with a retrospective presentation of African American writers Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin, with discussion about these authors during the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and post-war America. The voices of these prolific writers are reflections of the struggle to survive the Great Migration from the rural South to urban American city ghettos, like the Southside of Chicago and Harlem in NYC.

DONALD HYMAN, singer-actor-writer-teacher-elder, is a Brooklynite who now calls Albany, NY, home. The first-place winner for Drama for his Vietnam Memorial vignette “The Dedication,” Hyman performed at the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado, May 2024. Currently Chairman for public access station CHANNEL ALBANY, he has produced "ALBANY TEMPO SPECTRUM" for 12 seasons, as well as producing "Capitol Region Portraits" for Proctors Open Stage Media. A familiar talent throughout the Capital Region, Hyman can be seen in the thirteen-part History Channel series, “The Revolution.”

 Special thanks to event sponsor, L’esperance Tile Works!

Note: This event is not sponsored by the League of Women Voters, but we include it in our calendar because we believe it will be of interest to our members.