ATLANTA — A tribute to young African-American girls is capturing the hearts of thousands on social media as an Atlanta photography duo collaborated with a creative visionary to re-imagine fictional ...

“Being able to watch the young kids’ expressions when I get on the ice, to see how excited they are and to know that I represent all of that scares me a little bit,” said skater, actress, singer and ...

Disney's first African-American princess will soon join the ranks of Snow White, Cinderella and the Little Mermaid, according to a USA Today report. Princess Tiana, star of upcoming animated musical ...

Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the Walt Disney Co. has made a symbolic reparation by creating its first ...

It wasn’t President Obama, Oprah Winfrey (who actually has a role in the film) or any of the black icons currently saturating mainstream American culture that finally motivated Disney to feature an ...

You watched the Disney movies, sure enough, as other girls watched them. And you put on your mother's pink nightgown and tied a long silk scarf on your head. And you danced, swirling in circles to the ...

Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney's first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is, too, but not because the princess is black. "She understands that this is a princess who is African ...