New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young selected the works for the second anthology, including poems from Langston Hughes, ...

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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.

Baltimore theatergoers gathered at Baltimore Center Stage recently for a dazzling and heartfelt production of Langston Hughes’ “Black ... it with gospel music, poetry and the spirit of an ...

An early morning fire at the Langston Hughes NYCHA complex in Brooklyn left one person critically injured and eight others with minor injuries Tuesday, according to the FDNY. The blaze broke out ...

In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the Landlord” to his class: Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak.

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.