Zora Neale Hurston was an author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she celebrated Black culture and oral ...

Her focal point centered around Black life and culture, particularly in the South and Caribbean. Genuine friendships were also important to Zora Neale Hurston. She wrote to Countee Cullen ...

Zora Neale Hurston sings "Mule on the Mount," one of ... In their living, they were creating a vibrant culture and a beautiful language.” Turpentine workers gamble for cigarettes on payday ...

every artifact of folk culture. All of that was to bring that wall down. That’s part of her great legacy to us.” Born in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston would go on to become the author of legendary ...

In 1937, she was received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study voodoo culture Jamaica and in Haiti ... the most important book to her. One of Zora Neale Hurston's partially burned photographs ...

Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain talks about Zora Neale Hurston and her ... In multiple trips to the south, Hurston shot 16mm film of rural Black people, culture and customs amassing 85 minutes ...

A century ago, a newly-assertive Black culture had established itself on the island of Manhattan. The Harlem Renaissance, as it would be known, was overflowing with the cultural contributions of ...