The main branch of the Ocean County Library in Toms River is the site for a Black History Month celebration on Saturday, Feb. 15 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Held in partnership with the Toms River NAACP, ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a ...

In one of his timeless and memorable poems, Langston Hughes, author and poet of The Harlem Renaissance, asked the question: ...

Participants will "learn how Black and African American writers have used poetry to express themselves. We will review some ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on ...

If Darolyn Brown was a poem, the words flowing across the page would tell the story of a young girl who grew up reading ...

Joe Wilson Jr. performs In Explanation of Our Times by Langston Hughes at the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry ...

Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...