Often, we think of democracy in terms of elections and laws. Historian Randal Maurice Jelks believes Langston Hughes saw something much bigger. In his new book, My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy, Jelks argues that Hughes understood democracy as a way of living, one rooted in dignity, community, and the responsibility people have toward one another. Hughes’s understanding was shaped long before he became one of the nation’s most celebrated writers. According to Jelks, “Hughes, as I argue, grew up in an abolitionist family and legacy that extended back to the fight against fugitive slave enforcement, as well as John...
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