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Appreciating Diversity Film Screening: Zorah Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Zora Neale Hurston — path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and acclaimed author (Their Eyes Were Watching God) -- established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature.

This film portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original. Come learn more about this extraordinary woman.

Reception with free beverages and dessert, 6:30 PM.

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