Alford's official role was as CEO of NOLA 180, the nonprofit organization that runs Langston Hughes. Alford had planned to grow NOLA 180 into a larger organization that would run multiple schools.

The winners of the 2023 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards have been announced: poet Kayla Cooper and fiction writer Jenea Havener. The annual award, co-sponsored by The Raven Book Store and ...

Tucked behind Langston Hughes Academy, beyond the lush banana trees and sprouting herbs and past the chicken coop and pile of compost made from cafeteria scraps, a magnificent creature lives in a pen.

Langston Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1901. He considered himself a poet first, although he wrote in many literary genres, from short stories to ...

Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was a complicated figure. His writings spanned the mediums of poetry, short stories, journalism, novels, political essays, plays, and ...

A premiere staging of stories by Langston Hughes populates the grand rooms of an historic mansion in Northeast Philadelphia. The EgoPo Classic Theater company and Theatre in the X have turned seven ...

Griffith’s photographs feature Hughes’ life at Atlanta University, showing him dancing with students, teaching, preparing for convocation, and posing at his faculty apartment. These pictures are ...

The Sweet and Sour Journey of Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown Through July 24 at ARTneo, 1305 West 80th Street, Suite 016, Cleveland, (216) 227-9507; clevelandart.org.