Students from Northeast Ohio are learning the basics of art curation as they share a forgotten story about two artistic legends of Cleveland. Artist Elmer W. Brown and writer Langston Hughes met in ...
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 ...
Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people would never see ...
Wednesday marks one year to the day since 22-year-old John Crawford III was shot and killed by a Beavercreek, Ohio, police officer in a Wal-Mart store outside Dayton. His death was one of many that ...
His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in 1926. Throughout his work, ...
Langston Hughes was a complicated, considerable man of American letters. He is perhaps best known for his poetry, which powerfully, and succinctly, captures the experience of black Americans in a ...
During the Harlem Renaissance, some Black people hosted rent parties, celebrations with an undercurrent of desperation in the face of racism and discrimination. By Debra Kamin A poem from Langston ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback