Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant figures ... Hughes explores the consequences of delayed dreams ...

With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and journalists born ...

Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,” from Collected Poems ... (For me, it was a poster that my mother gave me, enjoining me to “Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes wrote an essay about an encounter with a young man escaping chain gang labor. Illustration by ...