“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

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

Widely considered his masterwork, Langston Hughes’s ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’ draws on the modernist tradition ... to commemorate the drowning of the poet Edward King. As well as a great pastoral ...

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