[image_caption]Harry Colbert[/image_caption] In West Africa – as a descendent of enslaved human beings in America, the place I’m most likely to have ancestral roots – there’s a word to describe what I ...

Griots are having a moment. A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They're part of West African culture — and part of the story that unfolds in ...

Nationally recognized storyteller Mary Carter Smith died Tuesday of renal failure at the Genesis Eldercare Cromwell Center in Towson. She was 88. Smith?s unmatched ability to bring African folklore to ...

The co-curators and performers of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s annual celebration of hip-hop and poetry talk about this year’s theme of “The New Storyteller.” The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) ...

A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They’re part of West African culture but the term itself has a bit of colonialist irony in its aura — one ...