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Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one of two "middle-of-the-river" lighthouses left standing on the Hudson River. David Oliver/National Trust for Historic Preservation hide caption

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Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

May 1, 2024 • The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

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Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

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Lonnie Graham

Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

December 14, 2020 • Dinkins, who knew the writer, was a longtime resident of Eatonville, Fla., which was founded by freed slaves in 1887. She helped start the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.

Art Of The New Deal: How Artists Helped Redefine America During The Depression

Boris Deutch painted this 1941 Works Progress Administration mural in the Terminal Annex building in Los Angeles, Calif. Carol M. Highsmith/The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division hide caption

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Carol M. Highsmith/The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

The Coronavirus Crisis

Art Of The New Deal: How Artists Helped Redefine America During The Depression

May 25, 2020 • When the Roosevelt administration rolled out millions of dollars to fund artists, musicians, writers and actors, it wasn't just about job creation. It was to unite a nation in turmoil.

Opinion: What Zora Neale Hurston's Best-Seller Taught This African About Slavery

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Leslie Mwinnyaa

Zora Neale Hurston

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Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

Obituaries

Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

The Coronavirus Crisis

Art Of The New Deal: How Artists Helped Redefine America During The Depression

Opinion

Goats and Soda

Opinion: What Zora Neale Hurston's Best-Seller Taught This African About Slavery