By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Winold Reiss (c. 1925) / National Portrait Gallery Langston Hughes (pictured) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was born on February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form calledjazz poetry. Hughes is best known […]
