Langston Hughes was courtly ... Hughes was or was not gay will find little fresh evidence here. His thumbnail portraits of other famous people tend to be wan. Hughes spent time with Ernest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But that day’s gone now. A few lines later, Hughes had this to say: Depending on what one’s take is on Langston Hughes and the famous Black poet, journalist and author’s relationship to ...