Author and journalist Charles M. Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston Hughes fellowship at ...

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published in 1921 in The Crisis, the magazine ...

Hughes was an appreciator of modern dance and enlisted two of the best to hold the roles of Joseph and Mary: Alvin Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade. Yes, that Alvin Ailey, who went on to found one of ...

The University of Montana will host a community lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

MISSOULA — The University of Montana will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a free community lecture by poet Jericho Brown on Thursday, Feb. 6, titled, “The Art of Dreaming: ...

Baltimore theatergoers gathered at Baltimore Center Stage recently for a dazzling and heartfelt production of Langston Hughes’ “Black ... it with gospel music, poetry and the spirit of an ...

The Arts Academy of Sedona in collaboration with The Verde Valley School is kicking off the celebration of America's Black ...

In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the Landlord” to his class: Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak.

“Some of my best artwork was done right there ... had given him a fourth book — a collection of poems by author Langston Hughes. “The librarian was giving me a message,” Stevens ...

Aussie filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the ...