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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 2002
Page
37
The editorial discusses the 4 billion Sept 11 victims fund and its 1.6 million per death average, noting it won't restore losses but aims to prevent destitution while lawsuits proceed. It also critiques Illinois tobacco legal fees totaling 910 million against a 121 million lien, and cites U S troop goals in the Philippines as part of the broader war on terrorism.
Langston Hughes centennial marked by a 34 cent US stamp featuring a 1946 Cartier Bresson photo. The piece, rooted in the Harlem Renaissance, highlights Hughes as a prolific writer who captured black everyday life with vernacular voice and dignity across poetry, fiction, and drama.
In Lawrence Kansas Langston Hughes faced segregation in seventh grade when a teacher read a row of Black students as Jim Crow. He was expelled then readmitted after a campaign for school integration. His 11 years in Lawrence were marked by poverty and loneliness but fed his later poetry and activism through Black culture, music, and oral histories from his grandmother.
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