Watch A Presentation Of Langston Hughes’ Poem “Let America Be America Again” (Video)

July 11, 2017

Activist poet Langston Hughes wrote this poem, so the words are poignant and so on point. But respect to Oscar-nominated Alfre Woodard for speaking power to them! You feel the power, not by volume or forced tone, but the yearning and resolve she communicates as she reads…

“Let America be America again — the land that never has been yet — and yet must be.”

Appropriate. Just a week after America’s Independence Day. Watch, listen, feel, think. And when the opportunity comes (or you make it), ACT!

– @ojones1