One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

As part of Black History Month, NewsNation is celebrating artful and creative pioneers within the Black community who have ...

Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet ... called before McCarthy’s committee in 1953 and 1954. Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee ...

Brown, like Langston Hughes, wrote blues poetry, but his were set in the rural south, as the title, ‘Tin Roof Blues,’ suggests. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel was published past the height of Harlem ...

Harlem, Cleveland, Madrid, and finally Paris, he got along. With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to ...

Rhode Island’s Black History Month kicks off with the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading on February 2. The event runs from 1-3 p.m. at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) ...

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes ...

“Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned ... even,” Weso said. Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, lived in Lawrence with his grandmother between 1905 and 1913.