John A. Logan College welcomed hundreds to campus Wednesday afternoon for its fourth annual Juneteenth Celebration. The event ...

Juneteenth became a time for both reflection and celebration, blending solemn remembrance with joyous expressions of culture ...

Yaya Bey‘s album, Do It Afraid, is now less than a month from release, and to celebrate that milestone, the singer shared the music video for its third single, “Raisins.”The new song was ...

In the poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asks a critical question about our lives. We all have dreams, ambitions and goals to achieve. But what happens to a dream deferred? While Hughes may have asked ...

“What happens to a dream deferred?” Langston Hughes asked in his short poem “Harlem,” published in 1951. The word “deferred” seems inadequate to describe the status of Catlett’s ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes ...

The celebrated author of “Ghost,” “Long Way Down” and other titles for young readers walks us through his eclectic collection of books and literary artifacts.

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' birthplace can't forget him — and neither should we. ... like so many of Hughes' poems, "Dream Dust" gathers the stuff — both elemental and mythic — that composes our dreams ...

It’s where he wrote such notable works as “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and “I Wonder as I Wander,”. Facing Hughes’s former residence is this fully renovated townhouse , currently ...

Sharon Cook, retired English and theater educator from the Norfolk Public Schools, clearly loves her Langston — that’s poet Langston Hughes, of course. Cook begins her taut, well-directed ...