Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston As a Harlem Renaissance novelist, ethnographer, and anthropologist, the legendary writer protected and honored Black stories.

In honor of her birthday, here's a short of thread of stories we published to celebrate her work

At the height of her career as a writer and intellectual, Zora Neale Hurston went to Haiti to study the practices and convictions outsiders called “voodoo.”

There, she unlocked a secret about zombies. https://zora.medium.com/when-zora-met-zombie-dbcf0fb45d11

Hurston’s catalogue has grown to include all aspects of Black stories. “African American culture was the greatest cultural wealth on the continent. How did [Hurston] know that? And how did she know how to represent it?"

She knew our stories were valuable. https://zora.medium.com/the-key-to-zora-neale-hurstons-popularity-is-how-she-protected-black-stories-b0fface55f3a