In the poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asks a critical question about our lives. We all have dreams, ambitions and goals to achieve. But what happens to a dream deferred? While Hughes may have asked ...

The name is inspired by a Langston Hughes poem called Harlem where he says ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?’” ...

Rural communities too often awaken from the American dream to find that it has vanished. Opportunities that once kept their best and brightest at home shrivel to the point that the communities they ...

Ida B. Wells was a brave journalist and social reformer who helped create the National Association for the Advancement of ...

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.

This exploration of famous Black poems and their writers highlights the enduring power of poetry to capture the human ...

Three years before the Brown decision, Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Today, we must ask ourselves not what happens to dreams deferred but what happens to a dream ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during ...

Langston Hughes' birthplace can't forget him — and neither should we. Murals around downtown Joplin bear quiet witness to his greatness and hope.