Zora Neale Hurston has been played on NTS in shows including Moor Mother, featured first on 29 November 2023. Songs played include Bama, Bama.

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.