While legendary Harlem Renaissance poet/playwright/novelist Langston Hughes didn’t spend a lot of his life in Cleveland — he passed through for a couple of years, living in Fairfax and attending ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first ...

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The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. During the ...

The Harlem Renaissance was more than a cultural movement — it was a revolution of art, music, literature, and identity. From Langston Hughes’ lyrical poetry to Josephine Baker’s fearless performances, ...

The Harlem Renaissance Project is a collection of pieces named after an artistic and cultural movement that took place in the early to mid-1900s. Check out the full project here. Many of us (if we ...

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We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes’ poetic ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith’s collection of poems, “Bluff,” was published by Graywolf Press earlier ...

The brownstone is a national landmark, but it's been mostly empty for decades. In an effort to keep it from becoming another high-end co-op, a... Langston Hughes' Harlem Home May Get Its Own ...