African and African American Studies Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Germanic Languages and Literatures and Folklore and Mythology Professor Maria Tatar have won a 2018 NAACP Image Award for their ...

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 : ...

Browsing through a weighty new anthology called The Annotated African American Folk Tales is a journey across space and time. In one chapter called "Defiance and Desire," there's a section devoted 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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Jerry was driving home late one night when he ...

The new anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, aims to make century-old stories — of flying Africans, quizzical animals and... 'Annotated African American Folktales' Reclaims ...