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Earlier in the day, the three men had attended the pre-trial hearing in Boston municipal court of Tony Hurston, an employee of Mays's who has also been implicated in the Pierce stabbing. Police say that Hurston instigated the fight with Pierce, but Hurston maintains his innocence, according to the Boston Globe...
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...
DIED. DOROTHY WEST, 91, sole surviving voice of the Harlem Renaissance; in Boston. West was just a teen when she tied with Zora Neale Hurston for second place in a short-story contest, winning swift admission into the gifted clique of black intellectuals. The daughter of an ex-slave, West settled in tony Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and in 1995, after years of literary silence, published The Wedding, a novel about the black bourgeoisie that she dedicated to her editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
23.Their Eyes Are Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston...