Experience the fusion of jazz and poetry as Lakewood Cultural Center hosts ASK YOUR MAMA, featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet, ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901, born ...

DECORAH, IOWA—Ron McCurdy, professor of music at the University of Southern California, and his quartet will perform Langston Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” for Luther College’s Center ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was a complicated figure. His writings spanned the mediums of poetry, short stories, journalism, novels, political essays, plays, and ...

You are hereby cordially invited to a wonderful party for a word-making man. “There Was a Party for Langston” by Jason Reynolds celebrates the life and achievement of the “King O’ Letters” Langston ...