Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first ...

These are the last lines from a Langston Hughes poem, which American composer Florence Price set to music in 1945. In her long and prolific career, she composed four symphonies, two piano concertos, ...

On Langston Hughes’ birth anniversary, his timeless quote reminds us that dreams aren’t optional - they are what keep life ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and ...