Celebrities Who’ve Been Banned And Blacklisted For Dressing, Acting, Or Talking Crazy
LANGSTON HUGHES
Harlem Renaissance hero, American poet, social activist, novelist, poet, playwright, columnist, and poet, Hughes was a great success in his time and beyond. He published well-known classics such as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” Mule Bone, and Simple Takes A Wife. Sometime in the thirties, Hughes was targeted because he was a communist sympathizer, and often accused of being a communist himself. The accusations damaged his career, and he was rebuked by the same social parties that once kept him. He began to distance himself from communism and his explicitly political poems.