Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston's Complicated Relationship to Black Race Pride

by Lauren Michele Jackson

A new edited collection of the folklorist, anthropologist and novelist reveals the broad, category-defying intellectual life of a "genius of the South."

Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

Zora Neale Hurston was the most famous resident of Eatonville, Florida, but Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins spent decades organizing and building the town, then fighting to preserve the historical legacy of African American towns from the post-Reconstruction era. 

A Surprise Encounter with Zora Neale Hurston

by Fred Zilian

The genius of Zora Neale Hurston has fascinated recent scholars, but one reader found traces of her legacy in an unexpected place. 

The story of the slave trade’s last survivor

Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story.