Answer:
1. Dubois, editor of the crisis, published Hughes first poem.
2. Dubois asked Hughes to respond to Schyulers essay criticizing negro art
Explanation:
W. E. B. DuBois was an author and an editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. Also, he was an African American , historian, civil rights, sociologist, and an activist. He joined to strongly protest against lynching and Jim Crow laws. He was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and also as a proponent of Pan-Africanism.
While Langston Hughes was an American poet, columnist and social activist. In jazz poetry, he was an innovator and was known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance.