Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man ... We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.” Hughes is at the top of ...

“I, Too” captures the spirit of resilience ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

The family gave copies of these letters to Yale after Julio’s death, at which point I had already completed the research for The Worlds of Langston Hughes there. Hughes uses such spaces quite often in ...

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.

Poet lives in Kerry campaign (07-21-04) Grant expands Langston Hughes project (10-01-03) “It’s just real exciting that we have these buildings, whereas in many towns, they’ve just been razed ...

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (New York: Harper & Row, 1941). It is reprinted in Arnold Rampersad, ed., The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Vintage ...