zora neale hurston

Zora Neale Hurston is influencing a new generation of writers. Author Rae Chesny talks about what inspired her to become a scholar of Hurston’s life and work.

The $50,000 grants from the SPLC, a nonprofit advocating for racial justice, also come with billboards advertising the museums.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Alice Walker will headline this year’s events.

Almost a century after publishers rejected it, a book by Eatonville writer Zora Neale Hurston is finally being released.In 1931, six years before her…

Eatonville celebrates the life of Zora Neale Hurston this week. Zora Festival is in its 28th year, and culminates with an outdoor festival of the arts next weekend.Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will be at the festival, talking about how America needs to do more to recognize the contribution of Black Americans like Hurston to the history and culture of this country.

In celebration of the 80th anniversary of “Mules and Men’ by Zora Neale Hurston, Dr. Regennia N. Williams, an independent scholar and council member of the Oral History Association (OHA) serves as the host and facilitator of the roundtable discussion on Zora Neale Hurston and African American oral tradition.

95 years ago, Ocoee was the site of a massacre."RACE TROUBLE AT OCOEE CLAIMS 2 WHITE VICTIMS," reads part of a headline from the Orlando Morning…

The writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Ethiopian writer Baalu Girma are the inspiration for a new exhibit opening this evening.The Encounter: Baalu Girma…

90.7's Matthew Peddie speaks with N.Y. Nathiri to talk more about the history of the Zora! Festival and the efforts to preserve Eatonville’s deep history.