The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

The day also marked the start of a year-long celebration of the Schomburg that will feature exhibitions, book giveaways ... as a memorial to the poet Langston Hughes, whose ashes are entombed ...

Like poetry and Jazz, students and diverse books go hand in hand. This winning combination was on full display at NEA’s Read Across America celebration at Langston Hughes Middle School in Reston, Va.

“True joy in reading begins with access to diverse books, allowing readers to understand ... to life in a dynamic jazz performance on Sunday, March 2, Read Across America Day, at Langston Hughes ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of ... and echo with the rhythms of jazz and blues. Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka ...

Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston Hughes fellowship at Harvard ... use his time at Harvard to “work on two books that have been tickling my brain.” ...

We see that music, nightlife, jazz and performance are ... coming of age in a changing world. Langston Hughes went on to author and edit more than thirty works of poetry, novels, plays, essays, and ...

He is known as one of the presenters and influential writers of the cultural "Harlem Renaissance" and the discoverer of "jazz poetry". Langston Hughes spent his childhood ... Langston became ...

Langston Hughes, “Langston Hughes's Acceptance of the Spingarn Medal, NAACP Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 26, 1960,” ms, Langston Hughes Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale ...

The Jazz Age is one of my favorite periods to see depicted in ... Jessie is determined to prove herself by finding brilliant writers like Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen. Soon she discovers that the ...

the book forms "not only a celebratory dance of a biography, but a primer in Hughes’ own jazz poetry," Kirkus Reviews noted. Part of a long-running biography series for kids, "Who Was Langston ...