As I stand in the sun-drenched park, the aroma of barbecue smoke wafts through the air, curling upward like a prayer.

Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry ...

An African-American high school student claims he was told to read a classic Langston Hughes poem “blacker” by his English teacher. Apparently, when 9th grader Jordan Schumate failed to do so ...

And Smith curated the just-released “Blues in Stereo,” a collection of the early poems of the great Langston Hughes, a leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance of writers and artists.

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 ...

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 ...

A new selection of Langston Hughes’s letters shows how the “beloved bard of black America” was caught between the world he was born into and the one his poetry embodied. Reflecting on his career, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2016, President Barack Obama quoted Hughes’s poem “I, Too,” at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Our poetry selection for this week ...

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. ... Your faces are whirling lights of loveliness and splendor, too.