Disney released their groundbreaking film The Princess and the Frog, and for the first time, the heroine was a Black young woman named Tiana.
For Black girls and grown women alike, the moment was deeply significant. One of those women was writer and director Stella Meghie.
Meghie, the woman behind films like The Photograph and The Weekend and a longtime fan of Disney movies, is writing a new long-form musical series following Disney’s first Black princess.
Tiana, announced today in conjunction with other upcoming features on Disney+ Day, centers on the newly crowned Princess of Maldonia who hails from New Orleans.
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