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    I, Too Arts Collective

    by –LATOYA JORDAN Feb 07, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Students read their work for a poetry workshop at the Hughes House last summer.

    For nearly ten years the brownstone at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem was silent. Once the home of celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes, who lived there for twenty years until his death in 1967, the three-story row house sat vacant, its dark stone walls overgrown with ivy, the paint of its once grand interior chipped throughout. The only evidence of the building’s literary history was a small plaque on the facade bearing Hughes’s name and designating it a landmark.

    But today, thanks to the I, Too Arts Collective, the brownstone is once again bustling with

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