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2009 Festival
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Storyteller and comedian, Phyllis Stickney, shares how her grandmother "Big Momma," influenced her childhood and storytelling.
Writer, director and actor, Roger Guenveur Smith, performs as the great American abolitionist, orator, and statesman Frederick Douglass.
Many alumni of the Asante Children's Theater continue with the Asante Touring Company. Here, they perform a piece from, "Martin Luther King Jr. in a Hip Hop World."
See performances that took place on the National Mall and go behind the scenes with curator James A. Robinson as he reflects on this Festival program.
Support the Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Cultural Vitality Program, educational outreach, and more.