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The Langston Hughes Youth Event has been a motivating program for our youth in Rhode Island. Through Langston Hughes' words, the youth programming has allowed young readers to identify and share their artistic talents, particularly those in the urban core cities of Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls.

We are excited to announce that we are developing a robust youth event for September 2022 on "Identity." but we need $10,000 to make this inspirational program that our youth deserve happen. Will you help and support this event? We need your donations. No amount is too small, and your donations are tax-deductible.

Why Langston Hughes?

The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading (LHCPR) shares the works of Langston Hughes, specifically, because of the poet's proven ability to scrutinize, illuminate and engage critical thought around prevailing structures and realities. With work centering creative survival, development, self actualization, individuality and political mobilization, Hughes work becomes a natural conduit for engaged conversation and deep consideration. The sophistication of the poetry produced by Hughes is of a quality and breath that it easily engages both new- and ‘old’ comers. Similarly, the works create communal conjurings of improved futures and thought patterns that lend themselves to the learning, opening, and widening of minds. The LHCPR utilizes this work to create community, facilitate pedagogies empowering free will, independent thinking, and empathy.

Community Reflections