Black swim instructors like Schneider are rising ... At this point in her life, she was done hiding her mermaid tail. People can laugh at her if they want. She was going to frolic in her Blackness ...

“I’m a 300-pound Black mermaid in America over 35 ... which is stuffed to the gills with mermaid tails. They line her clothes rack and drawers, are squeezed into suitcases and drip from ...

Among Black Americans, especially children ... which places both feet together in a single fin, to mimic the mermaid tail before they swim underwater. Davis cautioned though that swimming under ...

I hope to show how these stories are part of a larger current with a much longer historical tail. I also hope to put to rest the idea that Disney's decision to feature a Black mermaid represents ...

Seeing little Black girls in red wigs and mermaid dresses snapped me out of ... ability to breathe underwater, beautiful tail, culture, family and all of her friends in an effort to pursue that ...

“If I would have had a Black mermaid, that would have been insane ... is set up to suffocate its girls and women, our gills and tails are a given. I don’t think my mom ever felt free ...

“I never expected she'd pull it up over her arms,” Adam Lisberg recalled of the traumatic experience involving his daughter Getty A father is cautioning parents against buying mermaid tail ...

To bring Disney’s iconic mermaid princess Ariel to life in “The Little Mermaid,” costume designer Colleen Atwood constructed a life-sized tail that ... with a layer of black suede laser ...

Equal parts fairy tale, ghost story and history, Monique Roffey’s new novel explores the legacy of colonialism and enslavement on a Caribbean island. Credit...Hayden Goodman Supported by By ...