Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ ...

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901, born ...

The winners of the 2023 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards have been announced: poet Kayla Cooper and fiction writer Jenea Havener. The annual award, co-sponsored by The Raven Book Store and the ...

When Sharon Nyree Williams moved to Seattle in 2000, she wasn’t used to having to actively search for Black community. She had gone to a historically Black college and come from a largely Black ...

Weary blues (1926) / Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset -- Fine clothes to the Jew (1927) / DuBose Heyward, Margaret Larkin -- Not without laughter (1930) / V.F. Calverton, Sterling A. Brown -- Ways of ...

"O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free." That line comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again," first ...

Vol. 27, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at 100: Part Two (2021), pp. 215-223 (9 pages) ABSTRACT Langston Hughes's understanding of both associative language patterning and the ...