Like a lot of people in a lot of families, playwright Aaron Coleman grew up hearing the stories of Brer Rabbit, the cunning character from African folklore who outsmarted his animal adversaries. These ...

When the burglar alarm sounds at the Wren's Nest, Marshall Thomas sometimes forgets to warn police about the shadowy figure lurking in the attic. "Why didn't you tell me there was somebody up there?" ...

In this way, Uncle Remus goes back in time to African models, as well as to the animal tales of Aesop and Chaucer. Harris helped inspire other writers in the vernacular such as Zora Neale Hurston and ...

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Georgia last week began raising $100,000 to build a monument to one of its two great literary heroes, the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the “Uncle Remus” stories.* Throughout the State’s public ...

May his daring at least get Disney’s closed minds to rerelease Song of the South. Will Smith hasn’t had a hit record since 1991’s Summertime, but he revives his former hip-hop persona as the ...

CHICAGO -- For 50 years, Uncle Remus Saucy Fried Chicken has been a tradition on Chicago's West Side. From the saucy fried chicken, to the roasted chicken, to the catfish and tilapia, everything is ...

There’s too much snow, Chicago. This week, the newsletter is all in the family, with a profile of the legendary Uncle Remus Saucy Fried Chicken and its founding family to conclude a series on ...

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As the Weekly’s Scott Foundas has noted, the newly minted Disney cartoon feature The Princess and the Frog is meant to be taken as “symbolic reparation” for the presumed insult of the studio’s 1946 ...