DICE Film Club Discussion: Hughes’ Harlem Dream

In observation of Black History Month, DICE invites you to a film screening and discussion of Hughes’ Harlem Dream, a documentary about Langston Hughes and his impact on the Harlem Renaissance! We’ll watch the movie asynchronously on Kanopy, and come together for a virtual conversation.

Please register for our virtual discussion. Until then, enjoy the following words from Harlem’s Poet Laureate:

What happens to a dream deferred?

    Does it dry up
    like a raisin in the sun?
    Or fester like a sore—
    And then run?
    Does it stink like rotten meat?
    Or crust and sugar over—
    like a syrupy sweet?

    Maybe it just sags
    like a heavy load.

    Or does it explode?

– Langston Hughes