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    Attraction starring Disney’s first Black princess replaces ride based on ‘racist film’

    by Mike Schneider Jun 11, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company’s US resorts, and some Disney followers see it as a fitting replacement to a former ride based on a movie that contained racist tropes.

    The new theme park attraction updates Tiana's storyline from the 2009 animated film, “The Princess and the Frog” and is opening this year in the space previously occupied by Splash Mountain.

    The water ride had been themed to “Song of the South,” a 1946 Disney movie

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