The pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about race, love, ordinary Americans and relatable struggles. These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to his impressive body of ...

Students from Northeast Ohio are learning the basics of art curation as they share a forgotten story about two artistic legends of Cleveland. Artist Elmer W. Brown and writer Langston Hughes met in ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes was a complicated, considerable man of American letters. He is perhaps best known for his poetry, which powerfully, and succinctly, captures the experience of black Americans in a ...

Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people would never see ...

HARLEM, New York City (WABC) -- Langston Hughes was one of the foremost figures of the Harlem Renaissance, where he lived in a brownstone for the last 20 years of his life. Hughes lived in the house ...

Nov. 23, 1943: Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people ...