An in-depth look at the life of influential author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, whose work reclaimed and honored Black life. 9pm Thursday ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE - Documentary - ...

In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston, who would become one of the most influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bought a chrome-plated pistol and hit the road in a “Chevrolet,” returning south ...

This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: Zora Neale Hurston has long been known as a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, in particular for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” But ...

Beginning when she was an undergraduate at Spelman College, Jennifer Freeman Marshall has devoted most of her academic career to exploring the anthropology of Zora Neale Hurston. Raised in Eatonville, ...

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17 (UPI) --In the new PBS documentary Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space, director Tracy Heather Strain focuses on the writer's research on Black people in the South and the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She’s viewed largely through the lens of her fiction, particularly “Eyes,” the story of a young woman striving for authenticity ...

Inspired by Charles King’s Gods of the Upper Air, a popular history of the anthropologist Franz Boas’s influential group of students, I’ve been working my way through some of the classics of the Boas ...

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem ...

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Zora Neale Hurston may have been buried in an unmarked grave when she died in 1960, but her star has been rising, posthumously, ever since Alice Walker brought her back to public’s attention in the ...