While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes, Denise Low and T.F. Pecore Weso made an interesting discovery. “Every place in Lawrence that ...

Arnold Rampersad edited The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. His two-volume biography of writer Langston Hughes is now out in a second edition. It was praised by critics as one of the best ...

In 1960, the NAACP presented its highest honor — the Spingarn Medal — to poet and activist Langston Hughes. In accepting, Hughes made a point to give credit where he believed it was most due: “I can ...

In 1923, after a successful but dull freshman year at Columbia University, Langston Hughes, already a brilliant, award-winning poet, took a job as a mess boy on a freighter, the West Hesseltine, so he ...

Langston Hughes wasn’t just a famous Black poet, novelist, playwright, and reporter who helped define New York City’s Harlem Renaissance—he was also an activist that reflected the multifaceted lives ...

University of Kansas associate professor and playwright Darren Canady stars as Langston Hughes in Theatre Lawrence's "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" Langston Hughes has always been a part of ...

A 1925 pastel portrait of Hughes that belongs to the Smithsonian. Winold Reiss, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of W. Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss “I ...

In addition to poems and plays and stories, Langston Hughes also wrote letters — a lot of letters. The letters — compiled for the first time in Selected Letters of Langston Hughes --offer insight into ...

An influential American writer from the early to mid 20th century. Beginning with the publication of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in 1921, Hughes first captured the public's imagination as a poet. A ...

In a 1926 essay for The Nation, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Hughes described the group, which came together during the Harlem Renaissance, when hanging out uptown was considered a ...