WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — The 44th Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference wrapped up in Rhode Island this week, bringing storytellers together for performances, workshops and youth programming.
The conference was held in Rhode Island for the first time in 23 years. Rhode Island Black Storytellers co-hosted the event, which was themed “Unbreakable Spirit: Telling Our Story, 250 Years and Beyond.”
Festival Director TAHIRA Tahira said the work of documenting stories rooted in Black voices and experiences is sacred.
“I learned to craft story, but I learned that telling stories from our voice, our experience, and documenting those stories, just like Zora Neale Hurston did, is sacred work,” Tahira said…