Jazz trumpeter Ron McCurdy picked up where poet Langston Hughes left off. A former professor at University of Minnesota, McCurdy created an educational, multimedia piece for a Harlem ...

Nov. 23, 1943: Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people ...

And yet must be—the land where every man is free." That line comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again," first published in Esquire in 1936. It's a long poem (which you can read ...

I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B.

Langston Hughes’ epic poem “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” has inspired many readings and reappraisals through the decades, but probably none quite like the one Chicago poet Marvin Tate will ...

The voice of Langston Hughes was the voice of black America. He knew rivers “ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” He wondered if deferred dreams “dry up like a ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao The artist, ...

Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people would never see ...