All You Need is a Wall (I Too, Sing America)

A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.

2010 / Adam Kampe / TCF, USA

A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.

"I am the darker brother - they send me to eat in the kitchen .... Tomorrow, I'll be at the table..."

Produced for the 2010 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds.


produced by

Adam Kampe

Adam Kampe tripped and fell into audioland about 10 years ago as a volunteer at WPFW in Washington, DC.


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