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 ...

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.