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Real Dragon
Date: 11/18/1972Call Number: RD 026 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Lincoln Bergman (on Oneness show)Program: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with story about two black students killed in Baton Rouge, then the acquittal of Billy Dean Smith on fragging charges, Tom Hayden reporting on trip to Vietnam. Lincoln Bergman recites "The Bitter River" by Langston Hughes, followed by "We Are Soldiers" civil rights song.
Gwendolyn Brooks - Part 1
Call Number: CE 125Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Brooks discusses bitterness as a theme of social protest in poetry. Also she reads her poetry, short stories, and the preface to the book "New Negro Poets," a collection by Langston Hughes.
Ralph Ellison - Part 1
Date: 8/5/1964Call Number: CE 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Adam Miller reads Ralph Ellison's address for the conference. About notions of the Black writer's experience in the US and the relationship between suffering and art. Also about understanding literature in a conscious way and the power of language.
Ralph Ellison - Part 2
Date: 8/5/1964Call Number: CE 135Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Adam Miller reads Ralph Ellison's address for the conference. About notions of the Black writer's experience in the US and the relationship between suffering and art. Also about understanding literature in a conscious way and the power of language.
Black Actresses - Kelly Marie Berry, Marguerite Ray, Henrietta Harris - Part 2
Call Number: CE 142Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
On integrated theater, about the importance of having Black actors and actresses as role models on television, and the Black women's roles being tokenized.
Writers of the Revolution: Langston Hughes and Margaret Danner
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: Vin 079Format: VinylProducers: Black ForumCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Recorded sometime before Hughes death in 1967, this LP is a recording of a conversation between the two famed poets. The two poets read each other their poems and discuss such topics as American poetry, African American authors and poetry of the 20th century. The poetry ranges from personal and lyrical verses to cultural and social commentary.
Hughes and Blues 1 (Fifth Saturday)
Date: 7/30/1988Call Number: FI 259Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano Echeverria, Chuy VarelaProgram: Hughes and BluesCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
First in a series on Langston Hughes. Includes oetry as well as excerpts from prose pieces, including one on "how I became a writer." Pays tribute to James Baldwin and John Oliver Killens, both of whom had died recently.
Hughes and Blues 3
Date: 1/30/1988Call Number: FI 262Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Chuy VarelaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Tribute. not only to Langston Hughes--also James Baldwin and John Oliver Killens, both of whom had recently died. Narrator reads Baldwin's "Letter to My Nephew." and comments on novels of Killens. He also reads Hughes' poem, "Mother to Son" (life for me ain't been no crystal stair) and a piece from Simple Speaks His Mind on the idea of a "Negro President."
Hughes and Blues #4
Call Number: FI 263Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Lincoln Bergman and Chuy VarelaCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Recordings of Hughes with music, including a river theme. Used in the making of the "Hughes and Blues" program series.
Hughes and Blues 5
Date: 7/30/1988Call Number: FI 267Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Chuy VarelaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Poetry of Langston Hughes, partly built around a Rivers theme, including Hughes reciting his first published work, "I've Known Rivers," and his famous "Dream Deferred" poem, Paul Robeson singing Deep River, and marking the birthday of Mandela with the song "Cries."
