Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no ...

"Most of my life from childhood on has been spent moving ... but soon never seeing most of them again," Langston Hughes writes in I Wonder as I Wander. The book, which he calls an autobiographical ...

In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the ... The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes ... Called upon to defend his art and life amid the anticommunist hysteria of the McCarthy era, Hughes told of his Lawrence childhood ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...