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Students Perform Langston Hughes-Inpired Poetry During "Dreams Fulfilled" Series at The Huntington

As part of the African-American Culture and Arts Series, Dreams Fulfilled at The Huntington, students from southland high schools participated in a poetry contest, performing their writings on April 23 at a special morning performance of The Langston Hughes Project, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. 

  

Pictured left to right: Chae’ Breanna Kemp, Cleveland High School, Ashley Jolley, John Muir High School, Ron McCurdy, Jonathan Petit, Central High School, Carolina Cormack, St Matthias High School.

The morning began with a multi-media event bringing the poetry of Langston Hughes to life through a powerful performance of words, images, and music, featuring a live jazz quartet led by Dr. Ronald McCurdy, professor of music at USC, and accompanied by a reading of Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama”. At the end of the program, fours students read their poems to an audience of classmates, teachers, and Huntington staff and volunteers.

 

"Forget my happiness, conceal my hope,
Repel my faith, and fear the rope.
That was the maxim, what they wanted us to live by.
Instead I held dear my culture, and the strength I could not deny..."

 

Read all of A People Marked for Revolution by Chae’Breanna Kemp, along with submissions from all student poets >