an author and theater artist historian. The exhibit highlights the contributions of more than 40 trailblazers, including legends like Duke Ellington, Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes.

Tennis great Althea Gibson, one of the first Black athletes to cross the sport's color line in international ... recites a poem at the 2024 Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading.

When I asked a neighbor about what I took to be a trend, she regaled me with the history of a color she called “haint blue”—a ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

“What are the exciting new ways that we might present dance in a visual art context ... postcards written to his dear friend Langston Hughes, and sketches of dance costumes), Edwards provides ...

The Chilean song stylist Claudia Acuna has infused her native Latina uniqueness to this music since her debut album “Wind from the South”.

Poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a ...

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.

The Worcester Black History Project returns to the Krikorian Gallery in the Worcester Center for Crafts to co-present a free art exhibition ... ve Known Rivers" title from a haunting poem by Langston ...

Often celebrated as the “literary midwife” of the era, Fauset discovered and nurtured the careers of luminaries such as Langston Hughes ... experienced through a single color, Perry herself becomes a ...