“Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.” The voice of reader Angela Romans reciting the well-known opening lines of “Dreams” by the celebrated ...

For years, Martin Luther King Jr. and poet Langston Hughes maintained a friendship, exchanging letters and favors and even traveling to Nigeria together in 1960. In 1956, King recited Hughes’ poem ...

Langston Hughes is now most widely known in the context of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which draws its title from Hughes’s “Harlem.” The poem asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?

The famous poet and his artist friend wanted to publish “The Sweet and Sour Animal Book” in 1936. But there were no takers. A Cleveland exhibition makes up for the lost time. By Erik Piepenburg ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao The artist, ...

Warts and all, the Langston Hughes who emerges from the first volume of Arnold Rampersad’s exceptional biography doesn’t suffer badly in comparison with the var­nished Poet Laureate of Negro America ...

All month long during Good Morning Jacksonville, we will celebrate the contributions that African Americans have made to American history. Born in the River City, author educator, lawyer, songwriter ...

When Langston Hughes visited Detroit in April 1937, he was already at 36 a celebrated American writer, leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He came to the city to see friend Elsie Roxborough’s production ...