Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was a complicated ...
His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in 1926. Throughout his work, ...
More than $1.6 million in grants are going to 22 sites and organizations to help preserve black history — including the Harlem home of famous American poet Langston Hughes. The National Trust for ...
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 ...
It was a Fourth of July weekend that promised fun, and young people came in droves to a be a part of it. The 1960 Newport Jazz Festival offered a beach-party atmosphere and live music by the likes of ...
The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. During the ...
Langston Hughes’s Harlem brownstone is one of 22 sites across the country that received a National Trust for Historic Preservation grant, the New York Daily News first reported. Part of the African ...
Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao The artist, ...