Langston Hughes' Harlem Home May Get Its Own Renaissance — As An Art Center. In the 1920s and '30s, Langston Hughes was at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance.

In 1936, the writer Langston Hughes and the artist Elmer W. Brown — two Black men, one famous and the other not — wanted to publish a book.

So, on a blisteringly hot afternoon in a local café not far from where Hughes spent some of his formative years on New York Street, Rampersad mapped out the basic outline of a conference to be called ...

CAMBRIDGE — When Davóne Tines was in fifth grade, he won a poetry reciting contest. The prize was a Langston Hughes collection called “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems.” As an African ...

Arts collective in Langston Hughes' home carries on poet's legacy 04:58. Our series, A More Perfect Union, aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us.In this ...

ShawChicago presents The Art of Langston Hughes, a collection of plays and short stories that celebrate the American legacy of Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright Langston Hughes. This is a one ...

Art World Artist Collective Wants to Turn Home of Langston Hughes Into Harlem Non-Profit. The group has already received over 1,000 donations.

Langston Hughes' Harlem home has shot up in value in recent years. A group of writers is raising money to save it from being turned into condos or coffee shops.

Langston Hughes was closed for building upgrades for two years beginning in spring 2010. It did not reopen until May 2012, making a full accounting of its budget hard to come by.

By the time the British artist Isaac Julien’s iconic short essay-film “Looking for Langston” was released, in 1989, Julien’s ostensible subject, the enigmatic poet and race man Langston ...

Langston Hughes' Harlem Home May Get Its Own Renaissance — As An Art Center The brownstone is a national landmark, but it's been mostly empty for decades. In an effort to keep it from becoming ...