Black Storytelling Week 2026

Celebrate Black Storytelling Week! 

This year’s theme is, “What we inherit, what we pass on.” What lessons have tattooed themselves on your heart? Whose features did you receive? What recipes have you been entrusted to keep? What prayers were you taught? What land has your name on it? This year is a call to reflect on, honor, or release the tangible and intangibles that pass through generations: lessons, recipes, heirlooms, traditions, gifts, blessings, dreams, habits, features, land, and more.

How to Celebrate
The best way to celebrate Black Storytelling Week is with people you love and who love you back. Whether its spending an afternoon learning a recipe from an elder; gathering your cousins to finally begin that family tree project; showing a little one photos of their ancestors; envisioning a new family with your friends; or some solo journaling, meditation, and reflection; there is no one way to mark this occasion.

Join us online and IRL
This year we're also hosting two community celebrations, one virtual and one in-person in Brooklyn NY. Learn more and RSVP below.