The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the deep history of Allen University in Columbia, its African Methodist Episcopal ...

Built in 1880 by a congregation comprised of formerly enslaved people and their descendants, the church is an enduring, ...

Bookshops in Bergen, Berlin and Paris offer browsers plenty of opportunity to discover new authors and stock up on old ones ...

The “Rivers” installation serves as a memorial to the poet Langston Hughes, whose ashes are entombed beneath the cosmogram. Lindo is a former Schomburg Center staff member.

COVER LOOK “I feel so blessed ... photographed in the Harlem home of Langston Hughes, wears a ... whom he’s seemingly missing. “The older one, he stays to himself—he likes his books ...

Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes Medal recipient. She'll receive the Medal at CCNY's 46th annual Langston ...

The Journal Sentinel books editor's favorite new books of 2024 include "A Chance Meeting," "Music Stories" and "I ... covers the gamut of musical situations in killer ... Langston Hughes, ...

A: It’s always Langston Hughes, “great American poet,” but I was looking through the work of someone who at the time he was writing it was younger than I am now. That really mesmerized me.

But at this historically significant branch, he sees photos of prominent black authors and is steered to the books of Langston Hughes, whose poems about missing ... new human connections and begins to ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...