The Peale's Storyteller-in-Residence, Mama Linda Goss, shares stories, poetry, songs, and insights about everything from Earth Day to the untimely death of George Floyd to talking to youth about race and racism.
This story is part of "Lifting as We Climb: Honoring the Black Ancestor Warrior Queens from the Women’s Suffragist Movement and the Civil Rights Movement" by Mama Linda Goss. Funded from the Creative Baltimore Fund, from the Baltimore Fund Program from The Mayor's office and the City of Baltimore. The project includes Praise Songs, poems, & narratives created/arranged by Mama Linda Goss about Black Ancestor Warrior Queens who have had an impact on the City of Baltimore and throughout the State of Maryland and the world from the 18th through the 21st centuries.
Mama Linda Goss (00:07): Well, oh well, oh well, it's storytelling time. I am the bell ringer. I am the praise singer. I am the truth. Well, I am the storyteller. I am the griot. I am the jolly muso. Well, oh well, well.
Mama Linda Goss (00:47): Peace and blessings, everyone. Gather around. I want to share with you that over the next sessions of the Mama Linda's Chapbook, there is going to be a special presentation, a special presentation called Lifting As We Climb, honoring the Black ancestor warrior queens from the women's suffragist movement and the civil rights movement and for commitment to community service. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, oh well, well.
Mama Linda Goss (01:29): This piece will be called Black Ancestor Warrior Queens. This is funded from the Creative Baltimore Fund, from the Baltimore Fund Program, from the Mayor's Office and the City of Baltimore. I begin this program on August 23, 2022. I am so thankful for the Mayor and for the City of Baltimore for making this program possible, and I thank the Peale Center for producing it. This project will include praise songs, poems, narratives, and testimonies created, arranged by me, Mama Linda Goss Goss, and this is about Black warrior queens, our Black ancestor warrior queens who have had an impact, an impact on the City of Baltimore and throughout the State of Maryland and the world from the 18th Century through the 21st Century. I hope you will enjoy it. Asante sana. Asante sana, please enjoy.
Mama Linda Goss (02:43): Oh, how our ancestor warrior queens deserve the praise. They deserve the drum rolls, so let the drums roll. Let the music play.
Mama Linda Goss (03:11): Ring the bells, ring the bells as we read the scroll. Well, oh well, well, we shall remember them.
Mama Linda Goss (03:26): Black ancestor warrior queens, we shall remember them. Ancestor warrior queens, we shall remember them.
Mama Linda Goss (03:38): Ancestor warrior queens, we shall remember them. They answered the call, we honor them one and all.
Mama Linda Goss (03:49): Ancestor warrior queens, we shall remember them. Ancestor warrior queens, throughout Baltimore. Ancestor warrior queens, throughout Maryland too.
Mama Linda Goss (04:04): They are historic Black heroes, they fought against Jim Crow. These precious golden gems, we shall remember them.
Mama Linda Goss (04:13): We shall remember them, Black ancestor warrior queens. We shall remember them, ancestor warrior queens.
Mama Linda Goss (04:23): We shall remember them, they answered the call. We honor them one and all, ancestor warrior queens.
Asset ID: PL-MLC-2022.33.02.a-A
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