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 ...

There is usually a very high social cost to ignoring youth: revolution. The words of Langston Hughes’ poem, Harlem, are prescient: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil Rights Movement.

In this great American classic (rightfully enshrined with the best works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and August Wilson), even the stage directions are sheer poetry, writes Page Laws.

"Dreamsleeves" is local author Coleen Murtagh Paratore's 16th published book, and her most autobiographical novel to date. She started working on "Dreamsleeves" (Scholastic Press, April 2012 ...

“I am fighting, hiding, lying and thriving.” This is what I said to my friend two days ago. Today, Aug. 28, marks the 60th anniversary of the renowned March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

In the bestselling book The Epic of America (1931), James Truslow Adams described the American Dream as "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with ...

The poem, as epigraph, greets the reader in the play’s earliest pages. It’s the type I like to spend time on; the metaphors are accessible, the message resonant. We read it a few times. Silently, and ...