A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West

Cultural Treasures of South LA Daytime Exhibition Family Friendly

Date

August 8

Time

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Cost

Free

Organizer's Site

caamuseum.org/exhibitions

Council District

City Council District 8

Event Series Dates

Through September 13, Tuesdays - Saturdays,  12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m.

Event Schedule

August 2026

  • Sunday 9th 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 11th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 12th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 13th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 14th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 15th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 16th 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 18th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 19th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 20th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 21st 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 22nd 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 23rd 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 25th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 26th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 27th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 28th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 29th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 30th 12:00 PM

September 2026

  • Tuesday 1st 12:00 PM
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One of the world’s most famous Black poets, Langston Hughes (1902–1967), is often associated with the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance in New York. But starting in the 1930s, though the upheavals of the Great Depression, World War II, and McCarthyism in America, Hughes spent significant time in the West, where he maintained deep connections and produced important work, including lectures, film scripts, plays, and his first book of short stories. Through recorded interviews, lyrical texts, archival photographs, and historic posters and prints, A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West reveals little-known aspects of Hughes’s work as a champion for justice and the special relationships he cultivated during his many sojourns in California, Nevada, and Mexico.

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