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

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and ...

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.

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes ... After giving a poetry reading at Fisk University in Nashville, Hughes journeyed by ...

Dang. Why don’t more Americans know Langston and Zora? Tsk. Everyone respects them as venerable writers but it really is so much fun to read their short stories, articles and poetry. Each astute ...

Poet lives in Kerry campaign (07-21-04) Grant expands Langston Hughes project (10-01-03) “It’s just real exciting that we have these buildings, whereas in many towns, they’ve just been razed ...

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