Langston Hughes was a 20th century African-American author.
When Benny Russell, was told that that the world wasn't ready for a Negro to be known as a writer, in Russell's case, a story about Benjamin Sisko for Incredible Tales, Russell mentioned examples of such writers as Hughes, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. (DS9 episode & novelization: Far Beyond the Stars)
Russell owned a copy of Hughes' poetry and heard stories of when Hughes would visit Harlem. (DS9 episode & novelization: Far Beyond the Stars)
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- Langston Hughes article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Langston Hughes article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
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