Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss “I have a dream.” You’ve heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1902 ...

Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back to Hughes’ poetry. AP Photo For years, Martin Luther King Jr. and poet Langston Hughes ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes ...

Jason Miller, a North Carolina State University professor of English, previously authored "Langston ... Seven of Hughes' poems heavily influenced King: "Mother to Son," "Youth," "I Dream a World ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood ... Exquisite and deceptively deep, like so many of Hughes' poems, "Dream Dust" gathers the stuff — both elemental and mythic — that ...

“What happens to a dream deferred?” Langston Hughes’s question calls President Bill Clinton, pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, poet Sonia Sanchez, and students from the Harlem Children ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes ...