The People Could Fly Themes

Move over Optimus—there are some new transformers in town. In the African-American folktale "The People Could Fly," we watch seemingly ordinary people transform into flying superheroes in the bli...

"The People Could Fly" is all about the dream of freedom. For the Africans who were captured into slavery and brought to America, there was little reason for hope, but through folk tales like this...

Whether we're looking into our personal memories or our familial legacy, we can glean tons of insight into the future by looking to the past. In "The People Could Fly," this relationship is portray...

"The People Could Fly" portrays some truly harrowing stuff. We see enslaved people getting beaten after collapsing from the heat; we see old men threatened with death; we even see a young woman and...