Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest ...

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer 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 ...

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 ...