When Robert Weil, the editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, approached Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar with the idea of putting together “The Annotated African American Folktales ...
Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh-based columnist for the Washington Examiner. She is the author of "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics." DONEGAL, Pennsylvania—It is ...
All over the world, community stories, customs and beliefs have been passed down from generation to generation. This folkore is used by elders to teach family and friends about their collective ...
Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...
Once Oh Beah, the eldest of the slaves, dons her stern griot stare and raises her healing herbs in offering to the four points, it's our surest sign that the African American folktales we're about to ...
DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 ...
DONEGAL, Pennsylvania -- It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You're hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 ...