The outdoor festival runs from Jan. 31 to Feb 2. in Eatonville with “vibrant performances, interactive art, and a celebration of the cultural contributions people of African ancestry have made to the ...

The Orange County Library System is hosting events as part of the celebration of Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy. One of them, ...

The season of celebrating culture, music and legacy continues with the 36th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts ...

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Prof. Scott Hicks discussed Zora Neale Hurston's work at Duke's Theology Underground series, exploring its spiritual and ...

As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose ...

January 28, 2025, will mark the 65th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death. Here’s an excerpt from my book, Alice Walker: ...

Near the end of her life, Zora Neale Hurston wrote to her editor at Scribner’s that she was “under the spell of a great obsession.” She had been working feverishly on the early chapters of a project, ...

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 ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

Zora Neale Hurston wrote groundbreaking works about ... One of his most known poems asks us the universal question "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" ...