Tonight we will be listening to the works of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer, he wrote his first book in 1926, and within that time period up until his death in 1967 he devoted his life to writing and using his voice to lecture. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals, operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. His work has appeared in the NAACP publication, Crisis Magazine, Opportunity Magazine and many others.

The long and grand list of Hughes' works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The Big Sea (1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First Book of Jazz (1955); Tambourines To Glory (1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some of these are: An African Treasury (1960); Poems from Black Africa (1963); New Negro Poets: USA (1964) and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (1967).