The ObserverShort storiesReviewThese sprightly tales by a rediscovered star of the Harlem Renaissance tackle race and love gone badThis collection of novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston’s short stories – among them eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales from the 1920s and 30s (recovered from the archives of forgotten periodicals) – highlights her favourite subject: feisty women who deploy whatever strategies are available to escape their bullish men.
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ChildrenTimelineNearly three years after Victoria Climbié's parents sent her to Britain from Africa in the hope of a better life a public inquiry begins into her murder. The investigation will determine why the horrific abuse she suffered was never tackled despite repeated contact with social services, the NHS and the police.
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Seven-year-old Victoria Climbié left her parents' house in the shanty suburb of Abobo in the Ivory Coast. Read More...