“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish ...

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

Widely considered his masterwork, Langston Hughes’s ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’ draws on the modernist tradition, a documentarian sensibility and the fragmentation of bebop to capture the ...