These Black Americans, many who can still speak ... His story originates from old African American folklore where he’s said to be a cunning enslaved trickster but turns to a fool once in the ...

Folktales like the one about the King Buzzard ... Allison, in "The Origins of African-American Culture," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30/3 (1999): 475-481.

John Avery Lomax was a trailblazing folklorist, musicologist, and educator. Born in Mississippi and raised in Texas, he grew ...

Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to the genres' very American, very long legacies. The all-powerful Beyoncé, with her latest album, "Cowboy Carter," has shined a ...

How have these black roots been whitewashed from the history of American folk and country music? How have folk and country been positioned as white genres? What does black Americana sound like today?

Bilal, a native of Maryland, fits the criteria of the award as an emerging Black American author who has written a work of fiction of literary merit. "Temple Folk" is Bilal's first fiction ...

First, let’s give you a lil’ history. Black folklore, whether African or African American folklore, dates back to the 1700s.