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...

University Wire 01-31-2005 (The Mirror) (U-WIRE) GREELEY, Colo. -- In the age of million-dollar contracts, shoe endorsements and athletes enjoying "above the law" status, it's difficult to find players that transcended their sport and left a positive impact on not only the sports world,...

The Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois (University of Pennsylvania Press, $14.95 paperback) First published in May 1915, The Negro is one of W.E.B. Du Bois' Lesser-known writings. The significance of his sixth book, however, is formidable in that it is regarded as the...