Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes ...

He led the Harlem Renaissance, which saw Black poets and writers come together to express their thoughts and opinions. Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm ...

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Author and journalist Charles M. Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston Hughes fellowship at ...

Quartez Harris champions the power of literature with “Go Tell It,” which details the early years of celebrated writer James ...

From the Fillmore’s jazz alley to Richmond’s bustling wartime scene, the Bay Area was the destination for a great wave of ...

Zwerin pieced together “Gimme Shelter” in a cruddy room at the Londonderry Hotel, the film cannisters piled on windowsills.

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Many events are scheduled in the Milwaukee area today for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honoring the civil rights icon.

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