National Association of Black Storytellers

About This Association

In 1983 Mother Mary and Mama Linda Goss co-founded the first: "In the Tradition..." Black Storytelling Festival and together in 1984, they co-founded the Association of Black Storytellers now called the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS). The organization was incorporated August 30, 1990. Mother Mary was awarded the Zora Neale Hurston Award in 1985; proclaimed “Mother Griot” in 1994; received the Lifetime Achievement Award and The Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Association in 1996;and, her image is celebrated at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Mother Griot’s numerous achievements and recognitions affirmed her as an international treasure and a living legend.

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