Uncle Remus is a kindly, old Black man who shares the stories with the young son of a slave owner, and was notoriously brought to life on screen by Disney in the 1946 film, “Song of the South.” ...

UNCLE REMUS cannot die. Joel Chandler Harris has departed this life at the age of 60, after nearly forty years of toil, (for he went to work at a handpress in his boyhood,) but his best creation ...

James Baskett received an honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, dispenser of life-lessons for Bobby Driscoll’s Johnny, who moves from Atlanta to his grandmother’s plantation.

Auditions for a staged reading of THE AMANUENSIS by Ishmael Reed will be held from 11:00am-3:00pm on Saturday, August 23rd ...

Uncle Remus and Aunt Tempy, the main Black characters in the film, exist only to better the lives of the white protagonists, whether through their physical labor or by offering their wisdom.

Uncle Remus is not, however, and with his erasure from the story goes any confession or context for the racism of Song of the South. Part of that context comes from the history that shaped the film.

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 ...

At the same time, however, she did embed little clues regarding her Uncle Remus sources, making reference to “a fox coming up the plantation” in The Tale of Mr Tod, for example.

Title vignette (Uncle Remus). Brown cloth publisher's binding, stamped in black and gold; decorated endpapers. BAL 7100 (state 1) Contents Legends of the old plantation -- Plantation proverbs -- His ...

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. Th… ...