Some prefer their summer reads breezy and ephemeral while others seize the moment, sitting with texts they want to explore in ...

Off the Malls Tours and the Rainbow History Project join forces for a new walking tour celebrating Washington D.C.'s Black queer legacy.

The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

Her book explores everything from the lyric poetry of John Donne to the character-focused poems of Langston Hughes to the technically dazzling ghazals of Agha Shahid Ali, and offers ways to ...

Author and journalist Charles M. Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston Hughes fellowship at Harvard, hosted by the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith’s collection of poems, “Bluff,” was published by Graywolf ...

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 ...

When Langston Hughes visited Detroit in April 1937, ... More books and honors followed — poet-in-residence, National Book Award finalist, University of Michigan professorship, ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

His first book of poems, The Weary Blues, was published in 1926. It included perhaps his most famous poem, “ The Negro Speaks of Rivers ,” which Hughes wrote when he was 17.