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John McWhorter – Glenn and John Go Across the Pond

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Hughes, McCay, Du Bois, Neoharston - The Harlem Renaissance

"These guys and gals, they want to play the real game," he says. "It's not as if Hughes wasn't changing the art form." He was getting away from what say a la lock thought of as poetry,. And so all of that is fine. But he worked just as hard as somebody writing a sonnet on his poems".

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