When he left the world in 1967, he left behind a massive body of work, including poems, poetry books, novels, plays, essays ...

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.

Langston Hughes brilliantly written essays, and poems continue to impress young and seasoned minds alike. But not everyone enjoys reading. For those who aren’t bookworms, there’s a new film, I ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Langston Hughes burst out of southern Missouri with a jazzy style and a searing voice, injecting American literature with a cadence unlike anything that had come before. For nearly ...

These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to the celebrated poet's impressive body of work. Skip to main content A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World ...

The legacy of Langston Hughes will continue to be remembered in Joplin, where he was born, with the recent creation of a local nonprofit aimed at raising awareness and appreciation of his work ...

Founded in 1994, the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading shares the work and wisdom of the Harlem Renaissance poet with the Providence community. The event brings together artists and community ...

Langston Hughes’s work continues to inspire artists in all kinds of media today. American cartoonist Stephen Bentley, creator of the Herb & Jamal comic, included Hughes’s poem “Acceptance ...

Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory.