Zora Neale Hurston + Langston Hughes: Best Friends Forever
It's the summer of 1927 and Zora Neale Huston and Langston Hughes are driving across the South searching for folklore, swapping stories, and enjoying being the newfound stars of the Harlem Renaissance. Starring Alicia Walters.
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SOURCES
- Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor
- Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
- In Search of Zora Neale Hurston by Alice Walker
- The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance by Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry
- The Complex Literary Friendship Between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston by Yuval Taylor
- Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
- Jackson's classic collection of Black "toasts" is resurrected by Patricia Donovan
- Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition by Bruce Jackson
- Check out The Chicago Defender digitized and stored at The Library of Congress
- Read the archives at The Chicago Defender Archives
2025-03-26
55 min
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