QUEEN OF THE NIGGERATI: ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S CONJURING IN DURHAM, NC

 

Zora Neale Hurston called herself the “Queen of the Niggerati”. Circa 1930s when having #BlackGirlMagic was clandestine folklore, Zora had documentation of zombies in Haiti and whipped up politics & potions during her time at Hayti in Durham NC. The Queen of the Niggerati is a scripted hybrid (fiction/non-fiction) podcast that chronicles her brief but supernatural life in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina when she rose to be a conjure woman of prose, politics & potions.

Writer & Producer | Bree L. Davis