Last summer I attended a conference with the Ford Scholars on the Oregon coast. The scholarship program, founded by the Ford Family Foundation headquartered in Roseburg, assists hundreds of Oregon ...
Jazz trumpeter Ron McCurdy picked up where poet Langston Hughes left off. A former professor at University of Minnesota, McCurdy created an educational, multimedia piece for a Harlem ...
Leyla McCalla, formerly of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, had an ambitious idea for her solo debut as a musician. She wanted to take poems by Harlem Renaissance legend Langston Hughes and put them to ...
When the Democratic National Convention opens this week in Boston, presumptive nominee John Kerry will brandish the words, "Let America be America again!" from the poem of the same name by the great ...
This March 26, 1953, file photo shows poet and author Langston Hughes speaking before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C. It’s time for Douglas County residents to finish ...
The Langston Hughes Review publishes articles, reviews, creative writing, and visual art on Langston Hughes and topics related to his life and writings. Founded in 1981, the Langston Hughes Society ...
Leyla McCalla, formerly of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, had an ambitious idea for her solo debut as a musician. She wanted to take poems by Harlem Renaissance legend Langston Hughes and put them to ...