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 ...

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

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 ...

Langston Hughes. Hulton Archive/Getty. What did his work mean to you? By that time, I had already discovered poetry, but [was also] reading rap lyrics at home and making the connection.

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 ...

O n a snowy Christmas morning in 1932, the writer and poet Langston Hughes woke up to find a stocking hanging from the post of his bed. It was stuffed with halva, cashew, and pistachio nuts grown ...

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.