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...Vechten into the historical periphery. Instead we see a man dedicated to and intensely interested in the promotion of black art and, Bernard argues, devoted to using art as a way of challenging racial barriers. Bernard would thus place Van Vechten within the literary vanguard of Larsen, Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom defended Van Vechten from his harshest critics. These letters reveal that Van Vechten was the first line of editing for most of Hughes's career. His role as both editor and promoter of Hughes's work places Van Vechten in a pivotal role...
...during the decades before the end of the Second World War. In the 1960s, when Clinton walked 125th Street, things got worse. But from the teens to the mid-1940s, the joint jumped. Claude McKay celebrated the idea of coming Home to Harlem, where life was sensuous and exotic; Zora Neale Hurston moved up there after writing Their Eyes Were Watching God; Countee Cullen wrote his poems; W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey delivered their polemics; and Lena Horne sang in the chorus at Ed Small's Sugar Cane Club...
Before Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, there was her Disappearing Acts. Can ambitious singer Zora (Sanaa Lathan) find love with Franklin, the construction worker who fixed up her gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone? Since the soft-hearted hardhat is a statue-buff Wesley Snipes, well, three guesses. As money and personality troubles set in, however, it turns out Zora exhaled too soon. Like many renovations, Acts is most attractive on its glossy surface; too often the subtext crashes clumsily through the drywall. But the leads do hammer charismatic performances out of the material...
After reciting a stirring passage from a Zora Neale Hurston novel, Joyce I. Imahiyerobo '01 was awarded the first-place Boylston Prize for Public Speaking last night...
This is an album as quietly reverent as its title. Lilith Fair veteran Paula Cole tries hard to be a soul sister--according to the liner notes, one song, Suwannee Jo, was "inspired by Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God"; another track features a guest appearance by singer Tionne ("T-Boz") Watkins of the R.-and-B./hip-hop trio TLC. Cole even raps on one track. The main problem, though, is that the music is all too polite. Cole's last CD, This Fire, had moments of wild art-rock invention; here, she is content to relax...