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

With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston ... trial, Hughes was enjoying lavish Turk hospitality and occasionally reading the ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...

Determined to prove herself, Jessie throws herself into helping “The Crisis” thrive by scouting writers who would someday become literary icons, including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and ...