Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man ... Hughes is at the top of the list of Black poets who really managed to convey just what the experience of being a person of color ...

Steve Locke’s powerful exhibition at Mass MoCA, 'the fire next time,' confronts systemic violence and racial injustice ...

The program, “A Langston Hughes Memorial Evening,” was ... his reading and reference materials to the list of approved publications”—poetry, for instance, to be read from officially ...

Aussie filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the ...

New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young selected the works for the second anthology, including poems from Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath ... as George and a best-picture winner. Also on the list are1952’s ...

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Inspired by the Langston Hughes poem “Luck,” Lynn Nottage’s “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” elevates a coming-of-age story with poetic language and imagery. Set in Brooklyn in 1950 ...

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 ...

The film’s title is derived from the Langston Hughes poem “Merry-Go-Round.” In the poem, a child seeks to alight on the ride, but is confused by laws saying he must sit on the back of the ...