The current mess overseas brought to mind the old story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby. If you remember this story, Brer Rabbit also got himself into a mess by trying to fight the Tar Baby, which was ...

The unacknowledged debt Potter owed to the Brer Rabbit stories told by enslaved Africans deserves to be recognised, says scholar Think of Beatrix Potter and you will probably call to mind her tales of ...

The Tar Baby gets a bad rap. As does Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox and Brer Bear and all the other characters that inhabit what’s commonly known as the Uncle Remus stories. Truth be told, there’s nothing ...