25th Anniversary "In the Tradition..."

National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference

November 14 – 18, 2007

Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

Atlanta, Georgia

ZORA NEALE HURSTON HONOREES

LINDA JENKINS BROWN has been intricately involved with the Black storytelling festival and conference since its inception. NABS Co-Founders Mary Carter Smith and Linda Goss often said Linda could also be considered a co-founder. She was there with them planning the first national gathering of Black storytellers – “In the Tradition…” A Festival of Black Storytelling.

JOHN O'NEAL is the founder of the Free Southern Theatre that uses theatre as an instrument to stimulate the development of critical and reflective thought among Black people in the South and to support the efforts of those involved in the Civil Rights Movement.  His most recent project - The ColorLine Project -  is collecting stories of and producing performances about the Civil Rights Movement. 

SONIA SANCHEZ is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry which includes Does your house have lions? that was nominated for both the NAACP Image and National Book Critics Circle ward and Homegirls&Handgrenades that won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She lectured internationally at more than five hundred universities and was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University.