Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and ...

After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston Hughes’ testimony to 1950s U.S. Senate witch-hunters has been made public. The picture it paints of the writer’s Lawrence boyhood is not pretty.

https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.26.2.0160 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/langhughrevi.26.2.0160 Copy URL ABSTRACT In Hughes's literary world, history ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes wrote an essay about an encounter with a young man escaping chain gang labor. Illustration by ...