Langston

[lang-stuhn]

noun

1. John Mercer, 1829–97, U.S. public official, diplomat, and educator.

2. a male given name.

Example Sentences

They invested in a property and rented it out to England team-mates Amy Jones, Beth Langston and Fran Wilson.

From BBC

The peasant class of African Americans was whom Langston Hughes affectionately called the Lowdown Folks:

From Salon

Langston Hughes’ poem "Mother to Son" is a favorite of mine.

From Salon

"An extended shutdown could mean longer wait times at airports," said Transport Security Administration spokesman Carter Langston.

From BBC

For, like poets Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks and another singular supernova, Prince, the latter two of whom shared her birthday, Nikki has always communed with like-minded iconoclasts and what she called “space freaks,” those who understand that our songs of rage, rapture, irreverence and yearning are our greatest, Blackest weapons.

From Los Angeles Times