From The Chronicle Herald:
Stories based on Fauset collection in production now, to be shown on CBC-TV
A new series on CBC-TV aims to “reveal, revise and reinterpret important forgotten stories†from African-Nova Scotian folklore.
Picture Plant Ltd. of Lunenburg began production on the four-part series Studio Black! at CBC’s Bell Road location in Halifax on Dec. 8.
The series is based on a collection of stories by Arthur Fauset, “who in 1923 travelled to Nova Scotia from Philadelphia, visiting many black communities, much like Dr. Helen Creighton,†a news release says. “He documented these stories and assembled them into a book published by the American Folklore Society in 1931.†Continue reading.Â
This is a good direction for CBC. As a public broadcaster it has a duty to tell stories of people and places throughout Canada.