Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this day. Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his ...

“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish ...

In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel ... days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and ...

There is an excellent finding aid for the latter. As far as I know, the most recent translation of Hughes’s poems into Spanish, for instance, is still Maribel Cruzado’s Langston Hughes: Blues ...

Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the House ... Pressed to explain the context of the poems, Hughes described much of his childhood and young adulthood. In Lawrence, Hughes said ...

The Joplin History & Mineral Museum has a temporary exhibit on display titled “Harlem Renaissance and the Renaissance Man.” ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...