“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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