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HTTP:: Black Princesses Do Exist Imagia and the Magic Pearls
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Earlier this year, Disney announced it was working on the first long feature, animated film featuring a black female character, “The Princess and the Frog,” a move received with applause by the mainstream audience. All chaos broke loose just weeks after the announcement, as the first photo from the film seemed to show the prince â€" meaning, the black princess’ love interest â€" was white, as we also reported at the time. This was when author Monroe S. Tarver thought he couldn’t go forward with his plans of coming out with a fantasy story that also featured a black female character, his publisher tells Softpedia. All of a sudden, “Imagia and the Magic Pearls,” the first book from a series called “Tales from the Mapmaker,” which details the adventures of a lonely, black princess named Imagie, no longer had a place in the mainstream. However, Tarver and publisher Wizarding World Press decided to go ahead with the release of the book as it was: “Imagia and !
the Magic Pearls” becomes available in November this year. Imagia, as noted above, is a princess who can only dream of being a normal child. However, if anything, this is the last thing she can accomplish: she’s a princess and must grow up like one. In isolation, Imagia dis...
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