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Disney's First African-American Princess is a Modern Galnew

The Princess and the Frog begins and ends with a good story. A dynamic 19-year old African-American woman dreams of owning her own restaurant. Turned into a frog with a kiss, she’s drawn into a funny adventure, twisting and turning through Louisiana’s bayous in a quest to become human again.
San Antonio Current  |  Melissa Tarun  |  12-16-2009  |  Reviews

The Princess and the Frog Doesn't Bring Changenew

Hyped as offering the Walt Disney corporation's first African-American animated heroine, The Princess and the Frog actually refrains from expanding our social imagination.
New York Press  |  Armond White  |  12-04-2009  |  Reviews

'Frog' of the South: Disney's Song and Dance About a Black Princess Croaksnew

Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South, and two after firmly suppressing it, that peculiar cultural institution known as the Walt Disney Company has made a symbolic reparation by creating its first African-American princess -- and plunking her down in the middle of Jim Crow–era Louisiana!
L.A. Weekly  |  Scott Foundas  |  11-30-2009  |  Reviews

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