One of America’s foremost Black poets, Hughes writes that dreams are essential to a happy life. That the powerful play goes ...

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no ...

The young Black woman wanted her grandmother to see her in the sanctuary and “to run to her Hershey-­sweet brown arms” and receive a “coconut rabbit cake on a jelly-bean platter; every year under the ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

We must find the sun. We continue our list of inspiring poems about life with another great figure of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes. Like some of the best Black poets throughout history ...