10 reasons to check out the National Black Arts Festival

rondapenrice - August 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Okay I didn't do everything because there was so much. I wrote in about the marketplace but I also attended the E. Lynn Harris tribute which his good friend Tina McElroy Ansa organized. Other friends like Eric Jerome Dickey, Terry McMillan, Nathan McCall, Valerie Boyd, Farai Chideya, L.Divine and a few others were there. It was being taped and will appear on his web site and Simon and Schuster's. Saturday I caught the tail-end of Les Brown because I sat on a Michael Jackson panel for my friend Chandra Thomas for Talk Black at Sweet Auburn Bistro but I did see the film Medicine for Melancholy offered by the Pan African Film Festival and that was really cool. Last night I attended the closing reception and the food by the Restaurant Associates, who do all the food for the Woodruff, was good. The fried chicken slider was too cute and tasty for words. Every year, the NBAF, despite all its challenges, pulls together a fantastic festival that enriches, enlightens and entertains you.