The main branch of the Ocean County Library in Toms River is the site for a Black History Month celebration on Saturday, Feb. 15 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Held in partnership with the Toms River NAACP, ...

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.” ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

And in honor of Black History Month ... Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes. It also features iconic costumes, including ones worn by Eartha Kit, Denzel Washington and Cynthia Erivo in ...

Feb. events include the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading, and a free PPAC program celebrating musician and activist Randall Ashe.

Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston ... Hughes became a prominent and well-known voice throughout the city. Celebrated for his jazz-like poetry that zoomed in on the black experience ...

to support the Civil War effort and Black and white civil rights activism beginning in the late 19th century. All month. “Innovators & Pioneers: Black in Fall River,” Fall River Heritage State ...

“Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet,” Angelou told ... Angelou told the Observer that Biggers “loved black people, ...

Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston ... working-class Black experience. The fellowship will be awarded to scholars and artists who “continue Hughes’ tradition ...

During the Jim Crow era, Black tourists to Maine found recreational spaces where they were welcomed, not shunned.