00:00Zora Neale Hurston documented black life for the culture. As a trained anthropologist, Hurston
00:14traveled across the south and throughout the Caribbean collecting the truths of black folks
00:18that no one else seemed to care about. Forgoing conventions of what it meant to be a woman and a
00:24black writer, Hurston was free-spirited both professionally and personally. The celebrated
00:29artists documented rural black speech and used entirely black southern vernacular in a number
00:34of her works. Books like Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men and Tell My Horse cemented her
00:40legacy in the literary community and commended an influential place in black history. What we love
00:45most about Hurston is that she immersed herself in her work. She studied her own people with
00:50conviction as she celebrated blackness and its vast diversity. Zora Neale Hurston played by her own
00:56rules.
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