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*First published in the August 1923 issue of The Crisis magazine, the poem is a celebration of the beauty Hughes saw in the Black community.

*This poem is featured in his poetry collection titled The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting. This collection was published by Sounds True in 2016.

The poem was originally published in the June 8, 2020 issue of The New Yorker.