Zora Neale Hurston Collection
The Zora Neale Hurston Collection contains Correspondence, Writings, including drafts of her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road, the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and a play written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, “Mule Bone,” as well as a study of Hurston written in 1972 by Robert Hemenway.
This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Zora Neale Hurston.
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Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
Few authors have had the distinction of having their upcoming book being dubbed one of the most anticipated releases of the year and maybe only one has earned that type of accolade six decades after their death. But American writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s literary legacy is a class apart. Initially celebrated, later vilified, and posthumously canonized as “the patron saint of Black women writers,” her work has inspired the likes of Toni Morrison and Bernardine Evaristo. Here are some things you might not have known about the author, who was born on January 7, 1891.
2020 Was a Year to Learn (or Relearn) Important Black Feminist Lessons Jenn M. Jackson
It was author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston who wrote in the book
Their Eyes Were Watching God, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” The year 2020 may actually be both. When we were asked to step up and make a concerted change toward protecting the lives of those least among us, the answer was a resounding no.
This year, we were confronted with a global health crisis that spanned the entire globe and deeply shifted our connectedness to one another and the world. Globally, the coronavirus has infected more than 73 million people, resulting in at least 1.6 million deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. In the United States alone, 16.5 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, resulting in more than 300,000 deaths. Those deaths, we’ve seen from early on, are disproportionately represented among Black peop
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The Black Landscapes That Matter
Black landscapes matter.
Or they should but centuries of oppression followed by disinvestment have led to the erasure of many places important to Black history, and the histories behind them.
That must change.
If spaces and landscapes are to reflect America as it is, then America as it is must be able to see itself in America s spaces and landscapes.
In the following photo essay, adapted from an essay by Kofi Boone, see the places that make up a start of what we could call the Black landscape architecture canon. The list is far from complete.