An annual festival returning later this month celebrates the life and legacy of the late Central Florida author Zora Neale Hurston while honoring the contributions of Black people across the nation ...

YEAR PLAN. THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON FESTIVAL SEASON IS IN FULL SWING ALL MONTH LONG. EATONVILLE IS CELEBRATING THE 133RD BIRTHDAY OF THE GLOBAL LITERARY ICON WESH 2’S SENAIT GEBREGIORGIS HAS THE LINEUP ...

OF THE ANNUAL ZORA FESTIVAL IN EATONVILLE. THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION HONORS THE LIFE OF AUTHOR ZORA NEALE HURSTON. STEWART: WESH 2’S MARLEI MARTINEZ JOINS US NOW LIVE. MARLEI, HOW’S IT LOOKING OUT THERE?

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The prestigious award honors Black writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, ...

The Zoras will take place this year on October 17, kicking off a new tradition for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025.

If you’ve walked around campus lately, you may have noticed several posters or events celebrating Zora Neale Hurston, BC 1928. If you are not familiar with who she was, Spectrum is here to inform you ...

Hurston's family settled in Eatonville in 1894 when she was 3. Hurston's most popular novel was “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” written in 1937. Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, author of "The ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Four days after Miami-Dade began to return students to the classroom for in-person instruction there have been at least five cases of coronavirus in schools. Charles D. Wyche Jr.

Zora Neale Hurston was a philosemite. She believed that the Jews had been victims of stereotyping that started with Moses and that was promoted by the Bible and fed to children in Sunday school. Among ...

Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston, the accomplished Black writer, folklorist and ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s words are ringing out again — this time not in Harlem or Eatonville, but right here in New Haven. “I can’t hear nothing but Spunk!” hollers Mrs. Watson, the show’s community ...