Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ ...

Yale University's Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes's collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent. Rent party cards ...

The magic of creator, lead actor, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines’ operatic adaption of Langston Hughes’ 1931 dramatic monologue “The Black Clown” lies in its everythingness. Hughes’ poem — written on ...

The Milton Eagles (14-0) face the Langston Hughes Panthers (13-1) in the Georgia (GHSA) high school football Class 5A state championship game Tuesday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Milton is No.

After starting the 2023 season with a pair of wins, nationally-ranked Langston Hughes (Georgia) faltered in a week three matchup with Butler (North Carolina). Butler visited Atlanta for a Saturday ...

Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was a complicated figure. His writings spanned the mediums of poetry, short stories, journalism, novels, political essays, plays, and ...

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, born ...

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 ...

Few poets can claim a final resting place as, well, poetic as Langston Hughes’. His ashes are buried under the floor of the lobby of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in ...

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. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first ...

When Steven Hoelscher first came across an essay with Langston Hughes' name on it, he says it felt "totally random." Hoelscher, a professor at University of Texas at Austin, was doing research in the ...