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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And yet must be—the land where every man is free." That line comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again," first published in Esquire in 1936. It's a long poem (which you can read ...

The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska. By Hannah Edgar Shanghai straddles the past and the ...