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, born ...

Last summer I attended a conference with the Ford Scholars on the Oregon coast. The scholarship program, founded by the Ford Family Foundation headquartered in Roseburg, assists hundreds of Oregon ...

Nov. 23, 1943: Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people ...

Founded in 1994, the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading shares the work and wisdom of the Harlem Renaissance poet with the Providence community. The event brings together artists and community ...

A poetic tribute to Langston Hughes, who was born a hundred years ago Friday. My name is Pov Chin. I'm a student, and I want to become a teacher. I was reading a bunch of poetry. Like over the summer, ...

Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ ...

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.

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao The artist, ...

Poet Langston Hughes took a Scranton audience on a journey through his life and the lives of Black people in America. He began his lecture at the Century Club by describing how people would never see ...