EDITOR'S NOTE: To celebrate Black History month, we will be reposting our series on African Americans who had a major impact on Florida. This story originally published in 2020. When Deputy Patrick ...

Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent writer of the Harlem Renaissance known for her passionate stories about Black life in Florida. Author Alice Walker helped revive interest in Hurston's work in the ...

Nearly 30 years have passed since Alice Walker picked her way through the brambles of an overgrown cemetery in Florida searching for Zora Neale Hurston's unmarked grave. Hurston died penniless in 1960 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told. The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960 ...

A circus star. A famous singer and actress. A celebrated Black author. The South's first woman voter. The Seminoles' first woman chairperson. An American poet. All six of these notable women once ...

Hurston's family settled in Eatonville in 1894 when she was 3. Hurston's most popular novel was “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” written in 1937. Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, author of "The ...