The local graduate chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is planning to celebrate the life of a sorority sister who became a literary legend and at one point fibbed about her age and packed a pistol in her purse.

The Eta Zeta chapter's fourth annual Zora Neale Hurston Arts Festival next weekend pays tribute to the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance for her work as an anthropologist, playwright, folklorist, journalist, activist and fiction writer.

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in New York in the early 1900s when African-American literature, art, music, dance and social commentary began to flourish; other famous writers from the time include Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson and Claude McKay.   more >>