The Negro Speaks of Rivers Resources

A webpage featuring various scholarly discussions of Hughes’s famous poem.

A John Carroll University website dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance

An exhibition portfolio from the Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: The New York Public Library

A Poets.org guide to the Harlem Renaissance

A University of Michigan website dedicated to "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

A preview of a documentary about the Congo.

A kind of strange animated video of Hughes reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Listen to Langston Hughes read and comment on "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

A picture of Langston Hughes as a young man.

Artist Winold Reiss painted a portrait of Langston Hughes, and it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.

A street in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance

A cover of a 1923 issue of the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was featured in an issue of this magazine in 1921.

A portrait of good old Abe.

Check out the Nile and the pyramids.

Planning a trip to Egypt? You’ll need this.

A picture of the Euphrates River.

A map of the Euphrates River

A picture of the Congo River

A map of the Congo River

A picture of the Mississippi River

A map of the Mississippi River

Read an essay by Langston Hughes about the obstacles that artists of color face.

NPR Essayist, Vertamae Grosvenor, discusses Langston Hughes

Take a look at this children’s book which tells the tale of Langston Hughes’s journey to Mexico.