Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...
The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...
Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. An in-depth ...
One of Zora Neale Hurston's partially burned photographs “A friend in Mississippi, where I had moved to, gave me her book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and after that I was absolutely taken ...
In 1928, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Polk County, Florida to collect folklore. She ended up at a lumber camp, where African Americans from around the South worked long hours in difficult ...
January 28, 2025, will mark the 65th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death. Here’s an excerpt from my book, Alice Walker: ...
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The Arts Academy of Sedona in collaboration with Verde Valley School is kicking off the celebration of America’s Black ...
ZORA! Festival kicks off in Eatonville in late January with an art exhibition opening at the Hurston Museum and a three-day ...
a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey’s latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self. If, as ...
An annual festival returning later this month celebrates the life and legacy of the late Central Florida author Zora Neale Hurston while honoring the contributions of Black people across the ...