Saturday, July 1, 2017

Fourth of July

Langston Hughes' poem stirs memories of the American Dream - what America used to be, a country of immigrants who made it the great nation it is today.

O, let America be America again
The land that never has been
— The land that never has been
yet— And yet must be—the land
where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor
man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—
Who made America, Whose
sweat and blood, whose faith
and pain, Whose hand at the
foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty
dream again. 


*NPRLin-Manuel Miranda has released an incredibly striking and stylized music video — really more of an impressionistic mini-film — for the song "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" featuring K'NAAN, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC and Residente.