Black swim instructors like Schneider are rising ... This knowledge intrigued Schneider, who bought her first mermaid fin in college back in 2010. It was a hobby she kept hidden for fear of ...

And some mermaids are Black. Part of Davis’ research situates ... which places both feet together in a single fin, to mimic the mermaid tail before they swim underwater. Davis cautioned though ...

“I’m a 300-pound Black mermaid in America over 35 ... equipment long used by freedivers called a monofin — a single fin into which both feet are inserted. A mermaid’s mastery of the ...

I also hope to put to rest the idea that Disney's decision to feature a Black mermaid represents some sort of modern breakthrough. Here are three very different works of Black mermaid fiction that ...

Never mind that the neighborhood is under the sea. It wasn’t enough that Black people had to integrate cities and towns and schools and work places and institutions. Now we have to integrate the ...

Seeing little Black girls in red wigs and mermaid dresses snapped me out of my thoughts. It made me think about the first time I saw "Do the Right Thing." That feeling you get when you realize ...

After “The Little Mermaid,” Disney continued to find success with its animated film musicals, often with Ashman and Menken employing Black musical traditions. The Genie in Disney’s 1992 hit ...

THE MERMAID OF BLACK CONCH, by Monique Roffey Off the shores of Black Conch, an imagined island in the Caribbean, in 1976, two American white men and a crew of Black island sailors hook a mermaid ...

but participants are required to wear full mermaid regalia, including the mono-fin. The 2024 Merlympics celebrated a new world record from a 22-year-old American mermaid named Mia Sim. Although ...