Like "The Deep," "The Mermaid of Black Conch" explores lost ancestries ... narrative in the West African myths of Mami Wata and the goddess Yemoja, or Bethany C. Morrow's "A Song Below Water ...

Long before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837, Black mermaids were swimming ... “[Yemoja] was a goddess of river in the streams. And the stories go, depending ...

Tracey Baptiste's new book, "Mermaid and Pirate," debuted on April 4. Less than two months away from the anticipated release of "The Little Mermaid" starring Halle Bailey, a Trinidadian author has ...

Washington As a celebrator of Black mermaid mythology and a mother and ... and I don’t think any of them would give up being a goddess to get out of the water and marry a prince,” Washington ...

Never mind that the neighborhood is under the sea. It wasn’t enough that Black people had to integrate cities and towns and schools and work places and institutions. Now we have to integrate the ...

In the same state where a Republican governor wants to whitewash history, a Black mermaid is reclaiming the water as an ancestral healing ground for African Americans. That’s not a plotline out ...

When I was growing up in the 1990s, the Black girls in my neighborhood had VHS watch parties featuring "The Little Mermaid." We persuaded our parents to buy us "Little Mermaid' comforter sets and ...

While Bailey has received criticism over being cast in “The Little Mermaid,” Washington was fighting her own racial battles as a Black woman in the scientific sector. “Black people in these ...

As turtles swam through coral reefs, an image of a mermaid appears, then Halle Bailey, a Black actress and singer, was revealed as Ariel. “I think she’s Brown,” Emery said with a grin.

Like “The Deep,” “The Mermaid of Black Conch” explores lost ancestries ... in the West African myths of Mami Wata and the goddess Yemoja, or Bethany C. Morrow’s “A Song Below Water ...