France held a special value for Langston Hughes even before he first visited Paris. "I will never forget the thrill of first understanding the French of de Maupassant," he writes in The Big Sea (1940). "I think it was de Maupassant who made me really wan...

American author Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a moving spirit in the artistic ferment of the 1920s often called the Harlem Renaissance, expressed the mind and spirit of most African Americans for nearly half a century. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin,...

As a household name for so many readers of varying persuasions, Langston Hughes was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. From the Harlem Renaissance of the early twenties, to the Black Arts reorientations of the si...

The city of Chicago will literally make Black history in February when Ald. Dorothy Tillman's (3rd) "Slavery Era Disclosure Act" becomes law forcing firms seeking business with the city to disclose any slave trade ties. Tillman said the damage done to enslaved Africans...

On the first day of June, 1856, Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, New York, concluded his Sunday morning sermon from Luke 10:27, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy strength,...