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His mother, Mrs. Nugent, worried about his son who does not have interest in getting a stable job, so she sent him to Washington DC to live with his grandmother. At that time, he met famous writers like Langston Hughes and Georgia Douglas Johnson. They became friends, influenced on works each other, and collaborated on works together.

My own words: During the 1960s, Nugent, Afro-American artist, and other coworkers founded the Harlem Cultural Council which sought municipal and federal funds for the arts and mainly worked on build construction for Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Nugent also did active works as artist, performer, and commentator.

Richard Bruce Nugent died on May 27, 1987, of congestive heart failure in New York City. (Page 318)

Paupaulekejo (with Georgia Douglas Johnson). 1926 Unpublished. /Tax Fare (with Rose McClendon). 1931. Unpublished. (page 320)

Alain LeRoy Lock who is American writer asked Ricard Bruce Nugent to contribute to the anthology “The New Negro.” When Nugent drew a picture of ‘a washing drawing of an African girl standing in a hut. The doorway of a hut, apparently jangling her bracelets,’ Lock liked his picture and suggested him to create the story about it. Therefore, Nugent called the girl as ‘Sahdji.’ In his story, Sahdji is beautiful and the wife of Konombju. She has a stepson, Mrabo who is waiting his father getting old since he liked his mother. Another character, Numbo who idolized Mrabo, is aware of Mrabo’s thought and so kills Konombju during he is going to hunt. Because of husband’s death, Sahdji mourns and throws her body to his funeral pyre while he is watching. In the first time, this story was regard as gay prose text. However, it is regarded as African morality tale which condemns murder, not homosexual love. Locker encouraged him to write the story again and he created ‘Sahdji: An African Ballet.’ Sahdji premiered at Howard University in the late 1920s and was also produced at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in the summer of 1932. His works received honorable metions.