Part of a long-running biography series for kids, "Who Was Langston Hughes?" from author Billy Merrell will lead young ...

(NewsNation) — Langston Hughes, an iconic figure in American ... a UCLA senior lecturer emeritus in African American Studies, in a Biography interview. Born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin ...

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

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