In 1963, the March on Washington immediately became one of the most important moments in American Civil Rights history – a ...

An exhibit “Harlem Renaissance and the Renaissance Man” will be on display at t History & Mineral Museum through April 30. It focuses on Joplin native Langston Hughes, an African American poet, ...

Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Modern Poetry gives readers more space to breathe. Inspired by a poetry textbook of the same name which she read as a child, it’s a condensed history of Seuss’s reading and learning and what ...

The University of Montana will host a free lecture by Pulitzer-winning poet Jericho Brown on Feb ... titled “The Art of Dreaming: From Langston Hughes & MLK to 2025,” will be held at 7: ...

“We had a teacher that taught Langston Hughes, and we happen to have some Langston Hughes poems,” Perez adds. “It was giving the English class the experience of listening to the poems they had just ...

The 10,000-acre Hughes Fire near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic, which sent thousands fleeing this week, was more than 95% contained Sunday with all mandatory evacuation orders lifted.

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

IN THE AREAS WHERE THE HUGHES FIRES TAKING PLACE. AND SO THAT’S A BIG CONCERN THERE. BUT OF COURSE OTHER AREAS TOO ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY THOSE WINDS. AND SO THE FIRE DANGER REMAINS.