Langston Hughes Audio & Video

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…

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 recording allows us to relish the work of a master 21st century poet, blues and gospel musician, and African -American historian, often labeled "the poet-laureate of his race."

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.

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

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

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.

Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.

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.