Langston Hughes Audio & Video

The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.

Langston Hughes Speaking at UCLA on February 16, 1967. With a closing from Louis Lomax. From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department.

This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes…

In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people.

Here, in his own words, Langston Hughes shares the life experiences that set him on the path to become one of America's greatest poets.

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris.

Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works....

Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues.

A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own reflections, is offered on CD for the first time.

The fourth installment of our exclusive The Voice of the Poet series, of rare archival recordings -- some never before released -- featuring Langston Hughes…