Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.

In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black stud…

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