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ZORA

Jennifer Baker

Jan 15, 2020

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Illustration: Monica Ahanonu

Zora Neale Hurston Protected Black Stories

As a new collection of her short fiction reminds us, she gave honor to the mundaneness and magic of rural, Southern Black people

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Jennifer Baker

Jennifer Baker

Writer/Editor; creator, Minorities in Publishing podcast; editor of EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018, Atria Books); 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow. Website: jennifernbaker.com

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