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 ...

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 ...

The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at 100: Part Two (2021), pp. 224-230 (7 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325 ...

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, born ...

It was a Fourth of July weekend that promised fun, and young people came in droves to a be a part of it. The 1960 Newport Jazz Festival offered a beach-party atmosphere and live music by the likes of ...

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 ...

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.

Leyla McCalla, formerly of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, had an ambitious idea for her solo debut as a musician. She wanted to take poems by Harlem Renaissance legend Langston Hughes and put them to ...

Langston Hughes, foreground, is shown in his boyhood hometown of Lawrence, circa 1914. Hughes left Lawrence a year later to live with his mother in Lincoln, Ill. He eventually moved to New York where ...

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, ...

The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska. By Hannah Edgar Shanghai straddles the past and the ...