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 ...

His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in 1926. Throughout his work, ...

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 ...

Leyla McCalla, formerly of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, had an ambitious idea for her solo debut as a musician. She wanted to take poems by Harlem Renaissance legend Langston Hughes and put them to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

During the Harlem Renaissance, some Black people hosted rent parties, celebrations with an undercurrent of desperation in the face of racism and discrimination. By Debra Kamin A poem from Langston ...

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, ...

A poem from Langston Hughes discovered by a rare-books cataloger in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. By Langston Hughes Debut picture books by Jason Reynolds and Michael Datcher ...