New York? For the last two, extraordinarily prolific decades of his life, Langston Hughes turned out some of his most celebrated work on the third floor of the brownstone at 20 East 127th St. in ...

An influential American writer from the early to mid 20th century. Beginning with the publication of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in 1921, Hughes first captured the public's imagination as a poet. A ...

Kicking off Black History Month, with surprising facts about one of the best known names of the Harlem Renaissance era. What better way to kick off Black History Month than with celebrating the ...

Arnold Rampersad edited The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. His two-volume biography of writer Langston Hughes is now out in a second edition. It was praised by critics as one of the best ...

In 1960, the NAACP presented its highest honor — the Spingarn Medal — to poet and activist Langston Hughes. In accepting, Hughes made a point to give credit where he believed it was most due: “I can ...

In 1923, after a successful but dull freshman year at Columbia University, Langston Hughes, already a brilliant, award-winning poet, took a job as a mess boy on a freighter, the West Hesseltine, so he ...

Poet Langston Hughes was also an "inveterate letter writer," says the co-editor of a new compilation of his correspondence. But if you're hoping... Tumultuous Relationships, But Not Much Gossip, In ...

A 1925 pastel portrait of Hughes that belongs to the Smithsonian. Winold Reiss, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of W. Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss “I ...

As part of black history month, we remember playwright, poet and writer Langston Hughes. Born Feb. 1, 1902, in Joplin, Mo., he spent his youth in Cleveland. While a teen at Central High School in 1917 ...