{"id":11301,"date":"2015-08-12T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11301"},"modified":"2015-08-12T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:51:02","slug":"video-and-words-of-langston-hughes-capture-essence-of-blacklivesmatter-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11301","title":{"rendered":"Video And Words Of Langston Hughes Capture Essence Of #BlackLivesMatter Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In 1938,” according to the online civil rights organization, Color of Change<\/a>, “civil rights activist and poet Langston Hughes wrote his chilling poem ‘Kids Who Die<\/a>‘ which illuminates the horrors of lynching during the Jim Crow era.” Hughes presciently foresaw a civil rights movement, later carried out in the 1950s and 1960s, that would counter racial segregation and hatred with interracial solidarity and love.<\/p>\n

Listen, kids who die —
\nMaybe, now, there will be no monument for you
\nExcept in our hearts
\nMaybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp
\nOr a prison grave, or the potter’s field,
\nOr the rivers where you’re drowned like Leibknecht
\nBut the day will come —
\nYou are sure yourselves that it is coming —
\nWhen the marching feet of the masses
\nWill raise for you a living monument of love,
\nAnd joy, and laughter,
\nAnd black hands and white hands clasped as one,
\nAnd a song that reaches the sky —
\nThe song of the life triumphant
\nThrough the kids who die.<\/div>\n

This Danny Glover narrated, Frank Chi and Terrance Green video demonstrates the ongoing relevance of “Kids Who Die” and underscores why the #BlackLivesMatter movement must be a critical component of a just and equitable future. Please take less than three minutes to watch it…<\/p>\n