My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published in 1921 in The Crisis, the magazine ...

Trinity's spring lineup—featuring world-renowned artists and emerging voices—embodies the church's focus on peacemaking  and ...

In nearly 14 years on the Delaware Court of Chancery, Glasscock has tied the specifics of cases to literary references, ...

Poetry, music and inspirational words were shared Friday afternoon in memory of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy ...

Langston Hughes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar her major influencers. Giovanni went on to teach at Virginia Tech, where she was a professor in the Department of English for 35 years. The literary legend ...

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But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose ... Yes, that Alvin Ailey, who went on to found one of the country’s most famous dance ensembles. By all accounts, the dances that Ailey and ...

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 ...

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.