Portrait of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss (Wikimedia). On September 25, 1947, Langston Hughes of Harlem wrote to painter Jacob Lawrence in Bed-Stuy. Fed up with white depictions of African ...

Gelatin silver print c. 1933. Courtesy the National Portrait Gallery “I, too, sing America,” begins the arresting poem by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Using the simplest of ...

A 1925 pastel portrait of Hughes that belongs to the ... But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1902, influenced King’s sermons on a fundamental ...

The dramatic fallout between Hurston and Hughes, triggered ... the greatest feat of “Zora and Langston” perhaps lies in Taylor’s loving yet evenhanded portraits of both figures.

Langston Hughes, by Winold Reiss. (AP Photo/National Portrait Gallery) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

Kicking off Black History Month, with surprising facts about one of the best known names of the Harlem Renaissance era. What better way to kick off Black History Month than with celebrating the ...

Urban Stages has itself a fresh, original winner in "Langston in Harlem," a new ... allowing the audience to put together its own portrait of Hughes through his work. All the fascinating pieces ...

By Ryan Ebright “I feel that for the first time, I have met the South,” the poet Langston Hughes ... sketch incisive portraits of black life in the Jim Crow era. Hughes wrote the poems to ...

There he is, smiling, humble, industrious, and hidden, in Arnold Rampersad’s two-volume biography, “The Life of Langston Hughes” (1986 and 1988), not to mention in such important recent ...