My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro ...

1. Langston Hughes was a teenager when he wrote one of his most popular poems. Before Hughes was an acclaimed poet, he actually studied engineering at Columbia University in New York City.

The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. During the ...

It included perhaps his most famous poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” which Hughes wrote when he was 17. Wallace D. Best argued that Langston Hughes was intimately involved in the religious ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami and the ... more than 1,400 Black voters cast their ballots, the most ever by Black residents in Miami’s history at that time.

When Langston Hughes visited Detroit in April 1937 ... “Ballad” included two of what would become his most lauded poems, “Those Winter Sundays” about his foster father and “Middle ...

Langston Hughes (1901-1967) wrote “Ask Your Mama” between 1959 and 1960 and shared sections at the Newport Jazz Festival. An innovator of the literary art form known as the jazz poem during the ...

On a snowy Christmas morning in 1932, the writer and poet Langston Hughes woke ... While not the most easygoing guest upon his arrival, Hughes soon understood what a feat the agronomists and ...