Passage Theatre Company has revealed programming and scheduling details for its upcoming 41st season, titled Season 41: Not ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. ... his work was relatable and revolutionary.

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes Medal recipient. She'll receive the Medal at CCNY's 46th annual Langston ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes Medal recipient.

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 ...

A: It’s always Langston Hughes, “great American poet,” but I was looking through the work of someone who at the time he was writing it was younger than I am now. That really mesmerized me.

When Langston Hughes visited Detroit in April 1937, he was already at 36 a celebrated American writer, leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He came to the city to see friend Elsie Roxborough’s ...

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' birthplace can't forget him — and neither should we. ... The work concludes with a significant question and its certain answer: ...

Langston Hughes, the great Black poet, ... 123 years ago last week) had a nuanced—well, complicated—relationship with organized religion, one reflected in his work and life story.