"Segment 2: 'Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Reading Langston Hughes' Poem 'Ode to Dinah.' (1963).'" [podcast 2 min 26 sec]

This is a 1963 reading by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee of a selection from one of Langston Hughes's latter poetic works, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961). The segment read is titled "Ode to Dinah." Hughes wrote Ask Your Mama with musical accompaniment in mind and in fact notes on how to score the piece in the text. He anticipated that bassist Charles Mingus, who had orchestrated another "musical" poem by Hughes, Weary Blues, would compose the music for Ask Your Mama. Unfortunately, Hughes would not live to see his poem scored. He died in 1967.