The Langston Hughes Panthers defeated the Bradwell Institute Tigers 66-46 to earn their first trip to the Georgia High School Association Class 5A state ... the kids, for the girls, ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...

“Kids Who Die” stands among Langston Hughes’ most emotionally potent and politically courageous poems, yet its place in popular literary discourse remains surprisingly muted.

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 .

And Langston Hughes — as a kid, I had to recite “I too, I sing America/ I am the darker brother.” Baraka was huge in my teenage years. Everything felt so urgent in his work.

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...