"He was merely trying to get home to take care of his little brother." Teen speaks out after viral video shows him being ...

Best known for poems such as “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and fiction such as the wry Semple stories, Hughes was also a prolific letter writer. When his friend Carl Van Vechten started a collection ...

HARLEM, New York City (WABC) -- Langston Hughes was one of the foremost figures of the Harlem Renaissance, where he lived in a brownstone for the last 20 years of his life. Hughes lived in the house ...

ATLANTA — The family of a Langston-Hughes High School student seen on a now viral video being tased by a school resource ...

Lanier Johnson-Hunt said the incident began when a bus driver told him to get off, claiming he was on the wrong bus.

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 life ...

Our series, A More Perfect Union, aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment during National Poetry Month, we introduce you to a woman who ...

For over 40 years, the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center (100-01 Northern Boulevard in Corona) has ...

Jalen Ray with back-to-back sacks to end the game. Langston Hughes forces Douglas County to punt, gets the ball at their 25 with 2:30 left. Robert Tyson forces the first turnover of the game with an ...

In the 1920s and '30s, Langston Hughes was at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. After the movement ended, he didn't go far: The writer moved into a brownstone on Harlem's 127th Street, where he ...

In 1960, the NAACP presented its highest honor — the Spingarn Medal — to poet and activist Langston Hughes. In accepting, Hughes made a point to give credit where he believed it was most due: “I can ...

Langston Hughes was called “the original jazz poet” by novelist and Fisk University librarian Arna Bontemps. The title is well deserved. Best known for his evocative poetry that gave voice to jazz ...