On Friday, Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid is hitting the big screen, and I could not be more excited. As someone whose favorite Disney princess has always been Ariel, I know the ...

Last year, star Michael B. Jordan provoked a storm of criticism with just one line in a Vanity Fair cover profile: “We don’t have any black mythology, or folklore.” Jordan later clarified his comment, ...

Trung Le Nguyen’s “The Magic Fish” and Jerry Pinkney’s “The Little Mermaid” recast the classics. By Jen Wang THE MAGIC FISH By Trung Le Nguyen THE LITTLE MERMAID By Jerry Pinkney Like most American ...

The fairy-tale world’s little mermaid is making waves once again as Disney prepares to release a new live-action adaptation of the story. Toy Story 5, Frozen 3: has Disney run out of ideas? Oscars ...

Race And The Development Of The European Fairy Tale, Literature Professor Kimberly Lau reveals how “innocent” stories often ...

It's no secret that Disney revises the original source material when adapting a literary work, and in The Little Mermaid, it is most definitely for the best: the Hans Christian Andersen tale, as he ...

Shahidi stopped by ET’s suite at Comic-Con, where she gushed about why Bailey is so perfect for the role of Ariel. While Halle Bailey’s role as Ariel in Disney's upcoming live-action remake of The ...

Halle Bailey's casting is a breakthrough for the industry, but there's another conversation to be had. Hollywood films and TV series often treat black history as if it began with the transatlantic ...