The first African American to earn a living as a writer and a shining star of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was ...

On a miserably wet evening seven months after the death of Langston Hughes, we sat, almost comfortably (except for our damp feet), in the cavernous Wollman Auditorium, at Columbia University ...

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.

“Black Nativity” is a cherished cultural tradition to some and completely unknown to others. But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts ...