A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West

Cultural Treasures of South LA Daytime Exhibition Family Friendly

Date

September 2

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

September 2026

  • Thursday 3rd 12:00 PM
  • Friday 4th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 5th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 6th 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 8th 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 9th 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 10th 12:00 PM
  • Friday 11th 12:00 PM
  • Saturday 12th 12:00 PM
  • Sunday 13th 12:00 PM
Previous

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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