… John Mercer Langston, one of the most … of Langston Hughes's maternal grandfather, Charles
Langston, published an autobiography; and Langston's mother, Carrie Langston Hughes, …

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in … by Hughes himself
shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes …

… Many of the essays and other pieces of short nonfiction included in this volume of The
Collected Works of Langston Hughes have long been out of print and will be new to most readers. …

Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated
text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide …

The metaverse has the potential to extend the physical world using augmented and virtual
reality technologies allowing users to seamlessly interact within real and simulated …

Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations are expected to have significant impacts on the
world's climate on a timescale of decades to centuries. Evidence from long-term monitoring …

… and blues music, to jazz poetry which Langston Hughes pioneered to theater, visual art, and
… In it, Hughes outlines some of the challenges facing Black artists as they begin their careers, …

Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. 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 …

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate
moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, …

One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once," I want to be a poet—not
a Negro poet," meaning, I believe," I want to write like a white poet"; meaning …