Langston Hughes' Harlem Home May Get Its Own Renaissance — As An Art Center. In the 1920s and '30s, Langston Hughes was at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance.

In 1936, the writer Langston Hughes and the artist Elmer W. Brown — two Black men, one famous and the other not — wanted to publish a book.

So, on a blisteringly hot afternoon in a local café not far from where Hughes spent some of his formative years on New York Street, Rampersad mapped out the basic outline of a conference to be called ...

CAMBRIDGE — When Davóne Tines was in fifth grade, he won a poetry reciting contest. The prize was a Langston Hughes collection called “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems.” As an African ...

Arts collective in Langston Hughes' home carries on poet's legacy 04:58. Our series, A More Perfect Union, aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us.In this ...

The Harlem Renaissance changed the trajectory of American culture, and no other artist encapsulates the spirit of that era better than poet Langston Hughes. He wrote unapologetically about Black ...

To get you started, we’re focusing on 10 of the most powerful Langston Hughes poems. Consider this your introduction to the ...

Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, playwright, and reporter who helped define the Harlem Renaissance. Find out more about his life and work. ... It’s a complicated art—the cinema.

Langston Hughes' Harlem Home May Get Its Own Renaissance — As An Art Center The brownstone is a national landmark, but it's been mostly empty for decades. In an effort to keep it from becoming ...