Locals in Altos, Paraguay celebrated the Kamba Ra’anga festival on Monday with fire, dancing and traditional costumes. View ...

And for African Americans, folklore has played a particularly important part in documenting history too. The year 1619 marked the beginning of African American history, with the arrival of the ...

Black folklore, whether African or African American folklore, dates back to the 1700s. Storytelling was a huge part of our cultural foundation all the way back before the Transatlantic Slave trade.

Harnessing the power of African folklore. As an Afro-Latina kid who grew up with a nanny from Mexico, the film resonated with me deeply. I had the privilege of having a second mother who was there for ...

African folklore Ada Ari Children's books Anansi Ghana Cultural heritage African culture Reading with Robert WASHINGTON (7News) — This week's Reading with Robert takes us to the continent of Africa.

In African folklore, too, the pain of loss and the past is forever woven. It’s this legacy that distinguishes these stories from pop culture’s inclination to sanitize and erase.

As Vanity Fair’s cover profile, Michael B. Jordan provoked a storm of criticism with one line: “We don’t have any mythology, black mythology, or folklore. …Creating our own mythology is ...

NEWBURYPORT — Greg Pasciuto, independent researcher and writer, will visit “The Morning Show” on Thursday to discuss his article, “The Flying Africans: Returning Home in African American ...

'Nanny' Review: Filmmaker employs African folklore in a haunting Black horror While the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid casts Black actors in a preexisting white narrative, Nanny ...

There's something in the water in the new film Nanny. Over two unsettling hours, director Nikyatu Jusu submerges the audience in suffocating night terrors, blending glowing reflections of Black ...