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

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 ...