Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston ... peoples.” Hughes titled these three typewritten pages “Foreword From Life.” ...

Langston Hughes wasn’t just a famous Black poet, novelist, playwright, and reporter who helped define New York City’s Harlem Renaissance—he was also an activist that reflected the ...

Langston Hughes Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; cited in Rampersad, Life of Langston Hughes, Volume 2: 1941–1967: I Dream a World (New York: Oxford University Press ...

“Goodbye Christ,” in other words, was not the final word on Hughes’s religious life. Which Langston Hughes should we believe? The one who tells Christ to beat it because Marx is the new savio ...

On a snowy Christmas morning in 1932, the writer and poet Langston Hughes woke up to find a stocking ... and several of their wives (not all the men were married). Their first official stop ...

and no other artist encapsulates the spirit of that era better than poet Langston Hughes. He wrote unapologetically about Black life at a time when segregation was law and few Black artists were ...

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no better way to describe Hughes’s poetry than with his own words ...