Event time:
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Online ()
Event description:
Join us for a special gallery talk online featuring holiday-related poems by Langston Hughes read by Professor Willie Jennings of the Yale Divinity School together with a selection from Beinecke Library staff of a Christmas Cards from 1950 received by Hughes and special DIY cards he sent to friends that year.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/33VY57n
For more on the Langston Hughes Papers in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, visit: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/langston-hughes…
For more on Jennings, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, visit: https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/willie-james-…