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Zora Neale Hurston: "America's favorite black conservative"

In the latest issue of City Journal, John McWhorter offers a very interesting profile of the great Harlem Renaissance novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, who he calls "a fervent Republican who would be at home today on Fox News." Full Article at Hit and Run

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