Juneteenth

Welcome to Burning Bright, a weekly podcast presenting poetry and prose from Passager.
This episode celebrates Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of slaves in this country.
Passager’s second issue back in 1990 featured a discussion among three storytellers. One of them, Mary Carter Smith, performed her stories in hospitals, schools, libraries, and prisons around the world. She was a griot, part of a tradition of oral history and story tellers from West Africa. Here’