We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes’ poetic ...
Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison had a close relationship as mentor and mentee, both writers based in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s. Langston Hughes emerged as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, ...