I love the work I do as a professional storyteller and historical performer providing interactive performances and professional development workshops for schools, libraries, museums, and community organizations. For the past several years I have been on the roster of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council’s Commonwealth Speakers Bureau. I travel around the state offering a program called Great Escapes on the Underground Railroad, which brings to life compelling stories of enslaved Africans who escaped to and away from Philadelphia and of those who aided in their search for freedom. I use the power of storytelling to interpret these historical subjects and highlight Philadelphia’s African American and Underground Railroad heritage sites.
The videos posted above were recorded as I prepared to give such a talk at Center in the Park in Historic Germantown, Philadelphia. At this location–formerly Carnegie, the Old Germantown branch of the Free Library in Vernon Park–a distinguished group of Black intellectuals and artists including, Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. Du Bois assembled to celebrate Negro Achievement Week in 1928.
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I love the work I do as a professional storyteller and historical performer providing interactive performances and professional development workshops for schools, libraries, museums, and community organizations. For the past several years I have been on the roster of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council’s Commonwealth Speakers Bureau. I travel around the state offering a program called Great Escapes on the Underground Railroad, which brings to life compelling stories of enslaved Africans who escaped to and away from Philadelphia and of those who aided in their search for freedom. I use the power of storytelling to interpret these historical subjects and highlight Philadelphia’s African American and Underground Railroad heritage sites.
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