Langston Hughes reads two classic poems: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "The Weary Blues".Probably the most important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is widely held to be the first African American to earn a living as a writer. Hughes' poetry often addressed the inequities of Black life in America, as well as the everyday truths of that life. Music also infused Hughes' poetry, and he was known for poems that evoke the music and lives of those engrossed in the world of jazz, such as those in Montage Of A Dream Deferred.
