What I learned

 Today I learned about a famous poet James Langston Hughes. He wrote a poem called “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. We broke down the poem and figured out that Langston was referring to all black race, not just African Americans, the color of black skin. The black race has been existing since the beginning of time.

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