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Travel in story from Africa to Slavery to Freedom – Stories of the Underground Railroad, Civil Rights and African American Freedom Fighters. This program is presented by Janice Curtis Greene an accomplished storyteller, an American Griot. She has been telling African, African American and Multicultural stories for over 25 years. She is the former President and Life Member of the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) and Life Member and Past President of the Griots’ Circle of Maryland, Inc. She is the Official Griot of the state of Maryland and served on the MD Commission for African History and Culture.
Program part of the One Maryland One Book (OMOB) theme: What We Collect, What We Tell. Check out the OMOB book, Kin: Rooted in Hope, by Carole Weatherford here.