Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" is relevant today. Consider its words, and understand the times we live in.

In his poem, “ Harlem,” Langston Hughes’ asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It is a question that currently is being answered with increasing insistence on the streets of America ...

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 ...

ELISA NEW: When, in 1951, Langston Hughes published his book-length jazz poem "Montage of a Dream Deferred," it had been 30 years since he'd arrived in Harlem from Joplin, Missouri.

All the authors on the Sunday panel “The Dream Deferred” have written novels in which the main characters are defined by the struggle to survive and thrive in America.

"What happens to a dream deferred?" writes the most celebrated of the Harlem Renaissance poets, Langston Hughes. "Does it fester like a sore - or does it explode?" ...

I can’t help but think of the poem "A Dream Deferred," written by Langston Hughes, that gives shape to this feeling of being stuck in a holding pattern in life: What happens to a dream deferred?

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 ...