During the 2019 Zora Neale Hurston Festival of Arts and Humanities, we spoke to Honorable Edward Jones. He is the seventh and current mayor of Grambling, Louisiana, one of the historic black communities that founded the Historic Black Towns and Settlement Alliance (HBTSA).

410 Mayor Edward Jones on The Zora Neale Hurston Festival and The Legacy of Black Agency

Every Tongue Got to Confess Podcast (ETGTCP) is hosted and co-produced by Dr. Julian Chambliss, Professor of English and Core Faculty in the Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR) at Michigan State University. This podcast seeks to document the ideology and activism central to the mission of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.

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410 Mayor Edward Jones on The Zora Neale Hurston Festival and The Legacy of Black Agency

410 Mayor Edward Jones on The Zora Neale Hurston Festival and The Legacy of Black Agency