Mr. Kozol said that he had never met Langston Hughes but that a short while after his much publicized firing he had received a new collection of Hughes’ “Simple” stories from the poet ...

Steve Locke’s powerful exhibition at Mass MoCA, 'the fire next time,' confronts systemic violence and racial injustice ...

It’s appropriate to call it a dance-theater piece, but it’s a goal of mine to create my own definition of choreography as a ...

The week will focus on Meditations on Democracy, inviting dialogue about King's work and vision on civil rights, social ...

When he returned home, he discovered the librarian had given him a fourth book — a collection of poems by author Langston Hughes. “The librarian was giving me a message,” Stevens said.

About 7,000 public servants make up the Smithsonian Institution. That’s a fact that Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III ...

The African American Museum has drawn celebrities from Kyrie Irving to Mick Jagger and shaped how the city understands itself ...

Drawn to the art collection ... what a poet could be — looked like me in the classroom. No other contemporary Black poets crossed the school pages, and we barely glanced at Langston Hughes.

Penelope Rosemont deliberately emphasized the written word instead of the images, in contrast to most books on surrealism, which tend to ignore poetry and present only ... such as W.E.B. du Bois, ...