Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hollywood films and TV series often treat black history as if it began with the transatlantic slave trade. Of course, it didn’t; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coffin made to resemble a mermaid at a Ga funeral. The Ga people live along the southeast coast of Ghana. Eye ...

The trailer revealed a village in West Africa, ruled and protected by the mermaid goddess "Mami Wata" and its intermediary to the people. But things go south when a man stood up to point the people's ...

When a mermaid saves a human life, she’s most definitely not hailed as a hero—she’s marked for terrible punishment because she’s broken an ancient law designed to protect her kind. In that vein, ...

This is Goldilocks like you've never seen her. Bathed in a golden light, she looks out from a photo resembling a fashion magazine spread with a commanding stare, surrounded by massive teddy bears.

For centuries, sailors of the high seas have reported mermaid sightings, but without scientific proof, these "fishy tales" have all been caulked up to hearsay, folklore and drunken misinterpretation.

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 ...

Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open. This is most pointedly apparent in the backlash over Disney’s much-anticipated “The ...