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Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes wrote ... together two leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. On the spot, the pair ...
In 1926, poet, playwright and activist Langston Hughes published a piece in The Nation that is considered the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance, writing: “The younger Negro artists who create ...
Amid the fake palm trees of the Cotton Club, white America discovered black culture. Throughout the twenties, the limos lined up on 133rd Street between Lenox and Seventh avenues, known as Jungle ...
Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet ... writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem ...
Instead, the author insists, Fauset, one of the leading poets and editors of the Harlem Renaissance, found her. While ...
Author Victoria Christopher Murray will talk about her latest novel 'Harlem Rhapsody' at the Kravis Center in West.
Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,” from Collected Poems ... The decade that gave us the Harlem Renaissance also gave us Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson, as well as the critical rediscovery ...
Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet ... documents just about every place in the city that was significant to Langston Hughes. They're pictured Tuesday in front of St. Luke AME church ...