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

I think he’s used to me crying in the kitchen because it was a really good day ... his early poems, did you think about your own early poems? A: It’s always Langston Hughes, “great American ...

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 ...

All of which is to say that Langston Hughes, a century after he penned his first poems and a half-century after his death, is still with us. And good thing, too, since we need him now more than ever.

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