It is then sayable, that post-colonial Nigeria is Harlem of the 1930s rebuilt from the ruins of a history that was strangulation, rather than a series of events that progressed geometrically. And Nimi ...

How Jeremy Fox plans to honor Richard Schneider's founding legacy at the "Gay & Lesbian Review" while expanding the ...

More than 1,100 students walked into Langston Hughes Middle School in Reston shortly after 7 a.m., Monday, Aug. 26. Principal Aimee Monticchio stood near the Main Office trailer. She welcomed the ...

From: Photo Flash: First Look At The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence's DECAMERON, PROVIDENCE Students from the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Collective in rehearsal for DECAMERON, ...

Best known for poems such as “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and fiction such as the wry Semple stories, Hughes was also a prolific letter writer. When his friend Carl Van Vechten started a collection ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so ...

As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron of ...

We must look past the headlines and evaluate the Trump administration’s trajectory against the historical markers.

Arthur Gregory Pugh plays the Elder in Black Nativity, and for him, the role is more than a performance — it’s a connection to family, faith, and history. In a modern-day church scene, Pugh preaches, ...

Since December, the Trump administration has made Minneapolis a focus of a nationwide push for heightened immigration ...

Straining against the passage of time, Only the creak of my elbows in the wake of a dateline. In my head, I do not think About the new body I might build As I’m still working on the old one. Instead I ...

And the festive tree lighting.