Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss “I have a dream.” You’ve heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1902 ...

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 ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes ...

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

Langston Hughes, with a Doodle on its homepage. The animated sequence shows a caricature of Hughes at his typewriter as lines from his poem I Dream a World appear. Hughes was born in 1902 in ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood ... Exquisite and deceptively deep, like so many of Hughes' poems, "Dream Dust" gathers the stuff — both elemental and mythic — that composes ...

His books include “Ralph Ellison,” the two-volume work “The Life of Langston Hughes” and “Jackie Robinson: A Biography.” The views expressed here are his. Since Hughes’ poem makes no ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes ...