just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") is a poem by Langston Hughes. These eleven lines ask, "What...

2 Harlem (film), a 1943 Italian sports crime film "Harlem" (poem), a 1951 poem by Langston Hughes Harlem (TV series), a 2021 American comedy Harlem: A...

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship...

leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue...

East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded...

in Harlem: Negro Metropolis and satirized in Amiable With Big Teeth. His sonnet sequence, "The Cycle," published posthumously in the Complete Poems, deals...

volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the early 1920s and...

traditionalists", who appreciated the poem's message. Hughes's poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Mother to Son", and "Harlem" were described in the Encyclopedia...

English, and published Color, his first collection of poems that later became a landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. Written in a careful, traditional style...

Street. Its traffic is figuratively described as "Harlem's heartbeat" by Langston Hughes in his poem Juke Box Love Song. The IRT Lenox Avenue Line runs...