(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant figures in American literature, carved a niche for himself as a voice that resonated with the struggles, joys, and cultural ethos of ...

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no better way to describe Hughes’s poetry than with his own words: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Poetry Reading’s founding in 1995 was preceded by the creation of the now-closed Langston Hughes Center for The Arts and Education, according to April Brown, co-director of the Poetry Reading. The ...

Langston Hughes was a teenager when he wrote one of his most popular poems. Langston Hughes was just 17 when he wrote “ The Negro Speaks of Rivers ,” one of his most recognizable poems .