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I remember getting a Petition emailed to me last year demanding that Disney create a Black Princess. Well, apparently, they got enough signatures. Now, fifteen years after introducing it's first non-white Heroine (1992 - Aladdin's Middle Eastern Princess Jasmine), Disney has announced the creation of it's first Black Princess - Maddy, in its upcoming film "The Frog Princess" slated to be released in 2009.
The film also is the first hand-drawn film the company has committed to since pledging last month to return to the traditional animation form that made it a worldwide brand.
"The Frog Princess", a musical scored by composer Randy Newman, is "an American fairy tale" starring a girl named Maddy who lives in the French Quarter in New Orleans, said John Lasseter, chief creative director for Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.
Disney did not provide details of the plot, but the company showed shareholders preliminary drawings from the film and had Newman and a local jazz band play a song from the film's score.
