Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of expats to Paris: the artists who ventured north.
An exhibit titled "Harlem Renaissance and the Renaissance Man" will be on display at the Joplin History & Mineral Museum ...
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.
Today, Langston Hughes is known as one of the greatest American ... clear-eyed accounts of Black life and art-making in the pre-Civil Rights era. But one of Hughes’ most moving works is also ...
The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Art and Politics: Reexamining Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka (2019), pp. 144-161 (18 pages) https://doi ...
art, theater and scholarship of which Langston Hughes was a central figure. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora. It recognizes ...