Episode 50: "Kids Who Die" by Langston Hughes

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Photograph Info:
Portrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)
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The Poem:
Kids Who Die

This is for the kids who die,
 Black and white,
 For kids will die certainly.
 The old and rich will live on awhile,
 As  Always,
 Eating blood and gold,
 Letting kids die.

Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi
 Organizing sharecroppers
 Kids will die in the streets of Chicago
 Organizing workers
 Kids will die in the orange groves of California
 Telling others to get together
 Whites and Filipinos,
 Negroes and Mexicans,
 All kinds of kids will die
 Who don’t believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment
 And a lousy peace.