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Reclaiming and reimagining Uncle Remus. Playwright explores character at Powers New Voices Festival at The Old Globe. Playwright Aaron Coleman discusses the experience of Black storytellers ...
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 ...
Auditions for a staged reading of THE AMANUENSIS by Ishmael Reed will be held from 11:00am-3:00pm on Saturday, August 23rd ...
As Tiana's Bayou Adventure opens — and replaces the "Song of the South"-themed Splash Mountain — here's why the Uncle Remus adaptation will never be on Disney+.
Uncle Remus first opened in 1969 and two locations remain. The 47th Street location was open for 10 years.
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 RemusMR. FROST'S EDITION OF "UNCLE REMUS"; UNCLE REMUS. His Songs and His Sayings. By Joel Chandler Harris. New and revised edition. With 112 illustrations by A.B. Frost. 12mo. New-York: D ...
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 ...
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.
Chicago Sky star Angel Reese admitted in a series of posts on X that she has yet to visit some of the most iconic food spots ...
Block Club Chicago reports Uncle Remus, 737 E. 47th Street, closed on Sunday, March 2. There aren’t a lot of details yet, but ownership tells the publication that they’re looking for a new ...
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.” ...