Langston Hughes, foreground, is shown in his boyhood hometown of Lawrence, circa 1914. Hughes left Lawrence a year later to live with his mother in Lincoln, Ill. He eventually moved to New York where ...

Founded in 1994, the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading shares the work and wisdom of the Harlem Renaissance poet with the Providence community. The event brings together artists and community ...

Daron P. Stewart performed as Langston Hughes on Feb. 3 at the Lexington Park Library. Stewart combined acting and Hughes' poetry to educate the audience on Hughes' life and role in the Harlem ...

For over 40 years, the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center (100-01 Northern Boulevard in Corona) has ...

Langston Hughes was a major force in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and a leading figure in American literature until his death in 1967. Best known as a poet, Hughes also published novels and ...

Jazz trumpeter Ron McCurdy picked up where poet Langston Hughes left off. A former professor at University of Minnesota, McCurdy created an educational, multimedia piece for a Harlem ...

Longmeadow - Bay Path University will host trumpeter and USC Professor of Music, Ron McCurdy Ph.D and The Langston Hughes Project for a performance of “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.” The show will ...

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With “too,” the “darker brother” narrator in the Langston Hughes poem “I, Too” claims a space where none was given. He declares his own right to “sing America,” concluding that one day, those who deny ...