Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem ...

“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish ...

In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel ... days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes’ testimony to 1950s U.S. Senate witch-hunters has been made public. The picture it paints of the writer’s Lawrence boyhood is not pretty.

especially writers interested in Hughes’s poetry. Kutzinski pays careful attention, though, to opportunities in the Langston Hughes Papers (LHP) at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

American Experience is thrilled to feature award-winning poet Jericho Brown as the voice of Langston Hughes. Illustrations by Jonell Joshua.