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Sunday February 1 will be Langston Hughes’s birthday. He would’ve been 107 years old. My how time flies. In The Big Sea, Langston articulated the real deal about Washington’s black bourgeoisie of the 1920s. The chapter is titled “Washington Society.” These upper class colored people consisted largely of government workers, professors and teachers, doctors, lawyers, [...]

There’s always a place in my heart for a “Cinderella team.” Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays. My friend Ethelbert Miller’s walking up to the plate with his second memoir, The 5th Inning. When we’re not talking politics, Ethelbert’s been polishing up his memoir. Our mutual friend Andy Shallal, owner of Busboys and Poets, is [...]