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Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no better way to describe Hughes’s poetry than with his own words: ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant figures in American literature, carved a niche for himself as a voice that resonated with the struggles, joys, and cultural ethos of ...

This month, as we honor National Poetry Month, I wanted to shine a light on some of those lesser-known poems.They may not be the ones quoted at rallies or printed on posters, but they hit just as ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

And yet must be—the land where every man is free." That line comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again," first published in Esquire in 1936. It's a long poem (which you can ...

I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

An installation view of the exhibition “The Sweet and Sour Journey of Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown” at ARTneo in Cleveland. The 21 poems, letters from Hughes and over 30 illustrations ...

Langston Hughes (1901-1967) wrote “Ask Your Mama” between 1959 and 1960 and shared sections at the Newport Jazz Festival. An innovator of the literary art form known as the jazz poem during the Harlem ...

Langston Hughes makes Walt Whitman—his literary hero—more explicitly political with his assertion “I, too, sing America.” NPG, Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins 1891 (printed 1979) ...