Why Langston Hughes Still Reigns as a Poet for the Unchampioned. May 22, 2017. In His Speeches, MLK Carefully Evoked the Poetry of Langston Hughes. April 3, 2018. How Phillis Wheatley Beat All ...

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no better way to describe Hughes’s poetry than with his own words: ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant figures in American literature, carved a niche for himself as ...

This month, as we honor National Poetry Month, I wanted to shine a light on some of those lesser-known poems.They may not be the ones quoted at rallies or printed on posters, but they hit just as ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

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 ...

DECORAH, IOWA—Ron McCurdy, professor of music at the University of Southern California, and his quartet will perform Langston Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” for Luther College’s Center ...

What Langston Hughes’ Powerful Poem “I, Too” Tells Us About America’s Past and Present. Smithsonian historian David Ward reflects on the work of Langston Hughes ...