Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

"Most of my life from childhood on has been spent moving ... but soon never seeing most of them again," Langston Hughes writes in I Wonder as I Wander. The book, which he calls an autobiographical ...

Langston Hughes, “Postcard from Spain Addressed to Alabama,” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, eds. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (New York: Alfred K. Knopf, Inc., 1995), 203. 5. Karla ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes ... Called upon to defend his art and life amid the anticommunist hysteria of the McCarthy era, Hughes told of his Lawrence childhood ...

Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.

Poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a ...