Langston Hughes

Season recap: Alvin Hill

2011-12-22 06:53:00

Nic Vasilchek knew that the fortunes of his Luella (Ga.) High football team were intimately tied to cornerback Alvin Hill. With that in mind, the Lions coach decided to play the Maryland commitment sparingly on offense and not at all on special teams,...

Md. teacher of the year focuses on connections with students

2011-11-13 14:05:00

Joshua Parker fell in love in 10th grade, discovering the power of words when his English teacher put a volume of Langston Hughes in his hands. He describes it as a moment so profound that it was like hearing chords of music for the first time. Bright...

At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers

2005-02-24 00:00:00

Author Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...

Impossible Hair

2007-06-07 00:00:00

Hometown: Silver Spring Current members: Joe Ryan, vocals, guitar; Jim Glass, vocals, guitar; Kari Cohen, bass; Sammy "The Kid" Ponzar, drums Founded in: 2005 Style: indie rock Influenced by: the Beatles, Guided by Voices, Thomas Dolby, Dylan Thomas,...

Park Heights

2007-01-19 09:58:13

One of the long-time subjects of several urban renewal projects is Park Heights, situated in the northwest corner of the city. The area most famously known for that big horse race every year and a lot of synagogues is now, after years of strife and...

2001 was prolific for Marylanders

2001-11-22 00:00:00

Amid the tumults of 2001, this region's authors and publishers have stayed by their keyboards and their cash-flow charts, producing new books for the general reader. Here, accordingly, is the annual try at a census of such works, by Marylanders or about...

Carl Clark: photographer with a purpose

2001-02-25 00:00:00

DRAWING UPON genius and despair, Carl Clark brings hope to his people, his neighborhood and to himself. At the corner of Linden Avenue and Ducatel Street -- once called Dodge City in honor of the many shootings there -- they call him The Picture Man. He...

Arena Players ready for next act

2003-09-15 00:00:00

In 1953, nine African-Americans gathered in a Northwest Baltimore living room to discuss offering quality theater to the community. Their goal seemed simple. "We just wanted to do plays," said Ed Terry, the company's associate artistic director who...

Granny NFL cheerleader? Never too late to dream

2012-05-16 03:55:06

Heard about the 55-year-old trying out for the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleading squad? Sharon Simmons, a Carollton, Texas, grandmother of two, sashayed over to Dallas last week, along with hundreds of other (younger) hopefuls, because she figured a dream...

Authors A-C

2012-04-24 08:49:00

The Actors Training Center The Actors Training Center offers professional, process-driven classes year-round for actors of all ages. Featuring classes from musical theater to on-camera technique to master classes taught by Chicago, New York, and LA...

Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni will give free talk in Hampton next fall

2012-04-05 12:17:00

Award-winning poet and Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni will give a free talk at Hampton's Thomas Nelson Community College Oct. 4 as part of a series organized by Virginia Peninsula Literary Consortium. Giovanni has been called the "Princess of...

Festival of Books: Novels and the 'dream deferred'

2012-04-22 16:35:50

Dorothy O'Bannon and her daughter Labree O'Bannon, 4, watch the demolition of the 4900 block of Denmore Avenue in the Park Heights neighborhood.

2011-12-14 00:00:00

Kiana Purvis, 6, completes a reading of Langston Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America" Sunday during a service honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at Central Presbyterian Church in Chambersburg, Pa. Kiana's mother, Kia Purvis, holds the microphone.

2011-01-16 21:00:00

Square Theatre Company is hardly the same old Christmas turkey. The title change doesn't signal any retreat from proud presentation of the Gospel in the African-American tradition.

2010-12-08 14:25:48