Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem ...

“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 ...

In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the Landlord” to his class: Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak.

The state had an uptick in overtime pay that came as the overall state payroll climbed to $10.26 billion in 2024.

The University of Montana will host a community lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes’ testimony to 1950s U.S. Senate witch-hunters has been made public. The picture it paints of the writer’s Lawrence boyhood is not pretty.

American Experience is thrilled to feature award-winning poet Jericho Brown as the voice of Langston Hughes. Illustrations by Jonell Joshua.