Posts Tagged ‘Langston Hughes’

There’s No ‘V’ in Langston Hughes, But There’s Langston Hughes on V

Last month, a law went into effect that officially adds the name "Langston Hughes Way" to the stretch of V Street between 13th and 14th streets NW. It's the part of V that bisects the original Busboys & Poets and the forthcoming Eatonville restaurant, so of course owner Andy Shallal had a hand in the [...]

Andy Shallal’s Eatonville to Symbolically Reunite Hughes and Hurston

Restaurateur Andy Shallal was on the phone this afternoon, explaining to me how the 1930 play Mule Bone drove a wedge between its two creative collaborators, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Apparently, Hurston copyrighted the play in her name only, a slight that led to a falling out between the two Harlem Renaissance legends. [...]