Harlem literary light shines bright in ‘Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun’

Posted on April 9, 2008 by


PBS\' \'Jump for the Sun\' profiles Zora Neale Hurston, whose novels celebrated the lives of ordinary black Americans.A smart, gregarious, free-spirited woman, Zora Neale Hurston fit into both the intellectual flowering of uptown artists in the 1920s and the larger image of that decade as an era when the good times ended sooner than anyone imagined.

 

ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN. 

Airs Wednesday, April 9 @ 9 pm, Ch. 13

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