Civil Rights activist Zora Neale Hurston is the new Google Doodle today in order to celebrate what would have been her 123rd birthday. Read on for the facts on Hurston to see why she’s someone to ...

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 ...

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 conditions ...

Long before contemporary movements to secure civil rights, equity and equality for Black people, celebrated writer Zora Neale Hurston led her own personal and professional movement as an ...

Though Zora Neale Hurston is highly lauded now, few outside the literary scholar space know much about her journey and the intensive work that went into crafting her novels, some of which are now ...

Try this short quiz on books that arrived after their authors departed. By J. D. Biersdorfer Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost ...

Carla Kaplan, Author, Robert Hemenway, Foreword by, Zora Neale Hurston, Author. Doubleday $35 (896p) ISBN 978-0-385-49035-1 Many of the questions that Hurston scholars have asked are addressed, and ...

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This book may have much to admire on the micro level, but the experience of the whole leaves a lot to be desired. From Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story Hurston is remembered today chiefly for her ...

Rumor has it, the cornbread got her walking. Zora Neale Hurston’s mother had gone out to the yard to do some laundry and left her daughter inside with a crumbly golden square to munch on. Suddenly, a ...