The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is celebrating its 35th anniversary with some exciting changes for the ...

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 ...

In 1936, the anthropologist and noted Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica to learn the customs and traditions of its free Black population. Her experience there ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora ... of the Harlem Renaissance. On the spot, the pair decided to drive back to New York City together in Hurston’s small ...

Zora Neale Hurston was an author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance ... recognized as one of the most significant Black writers in American history. The ZORA!

In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance ... of man,” as she put it to a friend, the writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, in a ...

Hurston wasn’t drowning in the pelagic waters of tragedy; instead, she was refining the stories that ethnic groups had created, revised, and transmitted. She surely would have agreed with William ...

The queen of the Harlem Renaissance ... decade after Zora Neale Hurston’s death. Since, her legend has grown. “A novelist and folklorist, an anthropologist and short story writer, an essayist ...

Philosopher, writer and educator ... author Zora Neale Hurston came to Harlem in 1925 and went on to become one of the most important voices in the Harlem Renaissance. The author, known best ...

Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is ... who made her mark in France, writer Langston Hughes, writer Zora Neale Hurston, as well as a number of artists who are not ...

This course explores the historical, cultural and literary roots of the early twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and ...