Zora Neale Hurston posts
The New Yorker Rico Gatson appropriates old photographic images of famous black Americans—Zora Neale Hurston, Gil Scott-Heron, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye—and surrounds them with bright, colorful lines that shoot outward.
How Radical Can a Portrait Be?
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How much should we worry about the politics of a portrait?
106 months ago
The Root The truth behind African Americans connection with Native American ancestry revealed!
High Cheekbones and Straight Black Hair?
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Zora Neale Hurston once wrote with characteristic irony that she thought she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
107 months ago
The Root You don't have to be a white man to make a change in the literary world!
Watch: Author Nicole Dennis-Benn on Giving a Voice to Jamaica’s Working Class
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Reading authors like Junot Diaz, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison inspired me to write in my native dialect.
107 months ago
TheRoot.com "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Today in #BlackHistory, the incomparable Zora Neale Hurston was born.
110 months ago
The New York Times What is most striking about this picture is the woman who wasn't in it: Zora Neale Hurston.
Behind the Scenes of This Photo, a Harlem Legend
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In this 1946 photo from Harlem, there is a luminary just out of sight: the novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
122 months ago
HelloGiggles Today would have been Zora Neale Hurston's birthday.
A few important quotes from Zora Neale Hurston, on her 125th birthday
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Undoubtedly, 125 years ago, the world was a much different place. And undoubtedly, if Zora Neale Hurston hadn't been born on January 7, 1891, the world today would be totally different, too. Hurston — novelist, short story writer, anthropologist, f Read more ... olklorist, and trailblazer — was a leading figure of…
123 months ago
TheRoot.com Today, on what would be Mother Zora’s 125th birthday, we honor the social & cultural freedoms she cleared for black women writers.
Women Writers Pay Homage to Zora Neale Hurston on Her 125th Birthday
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Black women writers owe a debt of gratitude to the wordsmith who paid their freedom of expression forward.
123 months ago
Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy "Women Writers Pay Homage to Zora Neale Huston on Her 125th Birthday" via TheRoot.com
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/01/black_women_writers_pay_homage_to_zora_neale_hurston_on_her_125th_birthday.html
Women Writers Pay Homage to Zora Neale Hurston on Her 125th Birthday
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Black women writers owe a debt of gratitude to the wordsmith who paid their freedom of expression forward.
123 months ago
HuffPost Politics This year, student activists are asking the university to rename it for Zora Neale Hurston -- who, prior to integration, was the school's first black student -- and to require that each student take a campus tour explaining the racial history of the Read more ... university.
UNC Students: Why Are We Still Honoring A KKK Leader In 2015?
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Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klu...
132 months ago
TheRoot.com Maryah Sullivan: #YoungFuturist trying to change the perception in her neighborhood.
Young Futurists: Maryah Sullivan
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Zora Neale Hurston would be proud of the work that Maryah Sullivan has done in her hometown, Eatonville, Fla. Through the Joe R. Lee branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Sullivan has led beautification projects in the town and has volunteered Read more ... at nursing homes. “I’m trying...
133 months ago