Thanks to 2023's The Little Mermaid, Black and brown girls can finally see themselves as princesses in a film where the protagonist's skin colour is not as instrumental to the story as the princesses' heritage was in Aladdin, Mulan, and The Princess and the Frog.
In her tell-all book, the Oscar-winning actress also recalls her childhood experiences with racism as she was a victim of an anti-black attack in the third grade.
Like some of their African American counterparts did in 2020, when British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir was handpicked to play the roles of Barack Obama and