Members of St. Luke AME Church came together Saturday morning to celebrate the birthday of author and poet James Langston Hughes, as well as their church’s place in history. The event also ...

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.

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most ... Scott Fitzgerald and James Baldwin—Hughes is no exception. He lived ...

Read about more impactful artists here. (NewsNation) — Langston Hughes, an iconic figure in American literature, was a trailblazing poet, novelist, playwright, and social activist who emerged as ...

both are part of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Yale. There is an excellent finding aid for the latter. As far as I know, the most recent translation of Hughes’s poems into Spanish, ...