One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

(NewsNation) — Langston Hughes, an iconic figure in American literature, was a trailblazing poet, novelist, playwright, and ...

Brown, like Langston Hughes, wrote blues poetry, but his were set in the rural south, as the title, ‘Tin Roof Blues,’ suggests. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel was published past the height of Harlem ...

Harlem NYC, 1925. It is the time of one of ... an extract from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by Langston Hughes.

Harlem, Cleveland, Madrid, and finally Paris, he got along. With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes ...

Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet ... documents just about every place in the city that was significant to Langston Hughes. They're pictured Tuesday in front of St. Luke AME church ...

She'll receive the Medal at CCNY's 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, Feb. 13-14. This year's event commemorates the centenary of the Harlem Renaissance, that intellectual and cultural revival ...