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 ...

BlackPoet Ventures, in conjunction with Arizona Theatre Company’s production of A Raisin in the Sun, salutes late poet Langston Hughes (pictured) with an original slam work based on the Hughes poem.

In the poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asks a critical question about our lives. We all have dreams, ambitions and goals to achieve. But what happens to a dream deferred? While Hughes may have asked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

It is then sayable, that post-colonial Nigeria is Harlem of the 1930s rebuilt from the ruins of a history that was strangulation, rather than a series of events that progressed geometrically. And Nimi ...