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Zora Neale Hurston
June 19, 2018
MagazineEmily Bernard
Witnesses for the Future
Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story of the slave trade’s last survivor
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Michael A. Cooper Jr.
UNC's Hall of Shame
A Klansman's name has finally been scrubbed from a campus building. Now what?
January 7, 2014
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Zora Neale Hurston's Most Famous Novel Wasn't Bad, But It Could Have Been Better
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Don't Believe the Hype About Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics
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John McWhorter
Don't Believe the Hype About Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics
March 3, 2010
Andrew Butterfield
A Responding Sensibility
August 17, 2009
John McWhorter
Why The National Review Would Have Loved Zora Neale Hurston

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