Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this ...

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 ...

Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the House Un-American ... including “Scottsboro Limited,” a work that decried the trial of nine black Alabama teenagers on gang-rape allegations ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...