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 ...

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 ... and after that I was absolutely taken,” Walker says in the documentary. She decided to take a pilgrimage to the writer’s final ...

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The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the flamboyant, mocking rebel among Harlem’s Black literary creatives as well as a ...

Zora Neale Hurston was a philosemite. She believed that the Jews had been victims of stereotyping that started with Moses and that was promoted by the Bible and fed to children in Sunday school.

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 ...

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Since 2018, the organization has helped more than 3,000 women. It was named for activist Zora Neale-Hurston, a writer who wrote about the Black experience in the first half of the 20th century.

The outdoor festival, which ran from Friday to Sunday along East Kennedy Boulevard, celebrated Zora Neale Hurston’s rich cultural legacy. Sunday, the theme “Day of Reflection,” honored ...

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 ...