Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

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Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes Medal recipient. She'll receive the Medal at CCNY's 46th annual Langston ...

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.

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 ...

Ohio-born poet Paul Laurence Dunbar will be in the spotlight on Feb. 23 as St. Paul Lutheran Church in Massillon hosts a ...

In a scene from a new documentary about spoken word poet Caleb Rainey, he reads from his poem “Look, Black Boy,” which also is the title of his debut book and first album. “Remember, being ...

With an audience of over 120 million people, the performance broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.

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.

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For example, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston ... of conversation that he heard on the street to make it into high art and high poetry. I think the resonance here is that just as the Beats ...