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Langston Hughes was a Language and literature good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Let America Be America Again

Let America Be America Again is listed as if it were a book. It's actually a poem in a book called A New Song, published in 1938. Whoever is allowed to edit this, please make the change.

You're also missing the poetry book by him Jim Crow's Last Stand, published in 1943; in bibliographies, it's listed after Freedom's Plow.

Typo: felowship

Typo: fellowship

Additional published resource

Suggested additional published resource:

Hans Ostrom. “History and Historicity in the Work of Langston Hughes,” in Critical Perspectives on Langston Hughes, ed. R. Baxter Miller (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012).

Harmonstreet (talk) 23:21, 14 April 2015 (UTC) Hans Ostrom[reply]

gender mistake re: Jessie Redmon Faucet

On the Langston Hughes page, Jessie Redmon Faucet of The Crisis magazine is described along with two other editors as "men." She was a woman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.47.77 (talk) 17:31, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching that. I removed the sentence since that was not the only problem. The sentence also contradicts a statement by Hughes cited in the Jessie Redmon Fauset Wikipedia article: In his memoir The Big Sea, Hughes wrote, "Jessie Fauset at The Crisis, Charles Johnson at Opportunity, and Alain Locke in Washington were the people who midwifed the so-called New Negro Literature into being."'and draws a conclusion not supported by a citation. — Neonorange (talk) 18:41, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 July 2016

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I propose adding a book to the section, "Representation in other media." The proposed text would read:

"The story of Hughes' friendship and artistic collaboration with Zora Neale Hurston is also depicted in "Harlem Mosaics," a novel by Whit Frazier."

You can find a link to the novel on Amazon's website here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009CUPUZO. In interest of full disclosure, I am Whit Frazier, the author of the novel.

Whitfrazier (talk) 07:20, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]