Afro-Americans and Blacks in the 20s and 30s

Sylvester James Gates, Professor of Physics at Brown and Emeritus at the University of Maryland, will be my guest next month on the Glenn Show to discuss exactly this. I enjoyed being among the people we were with in Cambridge, where we didn't even have to pretend that anything like that makes sense. It felt like being at a black conference in about 1935. Right now I'm doing something that I should have done 30 years ago. I'm reading Arnold Rampersad's biography of Langston Hughes. There was so much less of a sense that you were unblack to, for example, write a sonnet the way white people wrote a sonnet. No matter how accomplished