A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West

Cultural Treasures of South LA Daytime Exhibition Family Friendly

Date

May 15

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

May 2026

  • Saturday 16th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 17th 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 19th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 20th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 21st 12:00 PM
  • Friday 22nd 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 23rd 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 24th 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 26th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 27th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 28th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 29th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 30th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 31st 12:00 PM

June 2026

  • Tuesday 2nd 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 3rd 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 4th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 5th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 6th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 7th 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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