Cleveland's Karamu House theater receives a grant to restore Langston Hughes' residence in Cleveland for aspiring artists of color....Hughes was a famous poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist....Cleveland's Karamu House is the oldest African-American theater in the U.S.
The late poet and playwright Langston Hughes, also a social activist, a Black columnist, an avid story teller, and a famed Black novelist who wrote fiction books The Karamu House theater in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest African-American theater in the United States CLEVELAND, Ohio- Karamu House in Cleveland will receive a $75,000 grant from the African-American Cultural House fund to restore the apartment residence in Cleveland of the late poet and playwright Langston Hughes, who was also a social activist, a Black columnist, an avid story teller and $75a famed novelist who wrote fiction books. The $75,000 grant is part of a $3 million grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help restore African-American landmarks and will be used to restore Hughes' former apartment residence for use as short-term housing for emerging artists of color to reside to study art-in-residence, Karamu officials said. Though Hughes grew up in a series of mid-western towns and was r
