Today is the birthday of the great folklorist, anthropologist and writer Zora Neal Hurston (1891-1960). The daughter of an Alabama sharecropper and preacher, her life’s journey took her to a degree from Barnard and international recognition for her work as a scholar and artist. Hurston has been called a “cultural preservationist” — someone who worked […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:00AM on January 7, 2014