Black Roots Festival is magical Black Forest.

Reports that in New York City, the artists who participated in the 1996 Black Roots Festival of Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center at the Ethical Culture Society, made the event a Black Forest. Quincy Troupe's opening of the festival with reading of excerpts from his book `Avalanche'; Audience response; Description of the delivery of the artists' works; Performances of Amina Claudine Myers and Terry McMillan; Information on other performers.