“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish ...

In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel ... days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes’ testimony to 1950s U.S. Senate witch-hunters has been made public. The picture it paints of the writer’s Lawrence boyhood is not pretty.

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.

Inspired by the Langston Hughes poem “Luck,” Lynn Nottage’s “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” elevates a coming-of-age story ...

The University of Montana will host a community lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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.

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American Experience is thrilled to feature award-winning poet Jericho Brown as the voice of Langston Hughes. Illustrations by Jonell Joshua.