Langston Hughes Festival Fundraising Breakfast
Celebrating Black Love & Valentine’s Day

In 1925, a literary, musical, artistic, cultural, and unapologetically Black movement solidified in Harlem, and 100 years later, we will gather to commemorate and celebrate the Harlem Renaissance and one of its greatest and most prolific scholars, Langston Hughes, with a breakfast party hosted by a group of his friends, which they commemorated via a picture at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue with historic Shepard Hall in the background of the photo.

Join us in historic Shepard Hall this Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14, 2025, to celebrate Langston Hughes, the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, the newly reestablished Black Studies Department, and Black Love in all its iterations! We invite you and your beloved — familial love, romantic love, bestie love, sibling love, whatever type of love that may be — to join us in celebrating Langston Hughes who famously wrote, “I was in love with Harlem long before I got there.”