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 ...

Beatrix Potter, an author who is known for children’s stories like "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and died in 1943, is being accused of taking her stories from African slave tales. Dr. Emily Zobel ...

A lecturer at a college university in England accused a beloved children’s book author of stealing stories from African slaves. On May 19, Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall from Leeds Beckett University ...

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Getting soaked on Splash Mountain did not bring me joy. But getting soaked year after year for the last 20 years brought our daughter joy and her joy brought us joy. Most of the joy was from the ...

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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 : ...

Getting soaked on Disney’s Splash Mountain did not bring me joy. But getting soaked year after year for the last 20 years brought our daughter joy and her joy brought us joy. Most of the joy was from ...