Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be, and We Gon’ Be Alright. Davey D Cook is hip hop historian, adjunct professor at San Francisco State, host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, and co-author with Jeff Chang of the new Young Adult Edition of 1:08 – Fund Drive Special: Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, playwright, activist, and a columnist for the Chicago Defender during the rise of the civil rights movement. He was a luminary of the Harlem renaissance; someone who stood out for writing poetry for the people, rather than for poets and scholars and critics. This is a recording made by KFPA, when Hughes spoke at UC Berkeley, on December 10, 1958.