Analysis: Hughes’s poem is a powerful assertion of black identity and equality.The narrator proclaims, “I, too, sing America, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes (1901–67) was a poetic innovator and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays and children’s books, he sought to honestly depict ...

The Poetry Reading’s founding in 1995 was preceded by the creation of the now-closed Langston Hughes Center for The Arts and Education, according to April Brown, co-director of the Poetry Reading. The ...

The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. During the ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes is best known for writing powerful poetry and prose. Less known is that he was also a librettist. At a 1957 visit to the University of Illinois, he gave a poetry reading and ...

Langston Hughes’s work continues to inspire artists in all kinds of media today. American cartoonist Stephen Bentley, creator of the Herb & Jamal comic, included Hughes’s poem “Acceptance ...