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December 18, 2009
This week on The Confab: The color wars continue. Jack White explains why Stanley Crouch needs to "lighten up", Helena Andrews says "Bitch is the New Black" and Disney's new -- black -- princess is the ... froggiest of them all? Join The Root's associate editor Natalie Hopkinson as she talks to senior culture writer Teresa Wiltz and contributors to The Root Jack White and Helena Andrews.
* Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.
* Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.
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by Natalie Hopkinson onDecember 14, 2009
Disney’s The Princess and the Frog represents one small step for my black princess—and one giant leap for me. Now I don’t have to resort to buying her stuff plastered with images of Disney blondes.
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by Teresa Wiltz onDecember 10, 2009
Is Disney afraid of too much blackness on the big screen?
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by Jozen Cummings onDecember 10, 2009
The voice of Disney’s first black animated princess on her historical role.
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October 7, 2009
Finally, little girls of African descent will have a Disney princess who looks more like them, with her very own hair products and happily ever after.
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by Monique Fields onJune 1, 2009
Forget about whether the new Disney princess is black or white. The problem is with princesses. Period.
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