Black History Month is finally here. And we’re celebrating it by highlighting all of our articles about African American writers. We’ll also be throwing in a couple Caribbean writers and an article on Ghana, so stay tuned!
We’d like to start off Black History Month 2011 with a powerful, black writer by the name of Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was not only a staple in the Harlem Renaissance, but she can also be classified as a Southern writer as she spent much of her life in Eatonville, Florida. The town honors her legacy each year by hosting the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in January. Festival-goers celebrate her work and life as well as focus on a specific theme that varies from year to year.
Hurston is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, a classic in American literature. We honor Hurston with our two articles entitled Zora Neale Hurston, A Literary Life and Zora’s Immortal South.
So kick off Black History Month with these two engaging articles on Hurston. We promise you, there will be more to come …