I’m old enough to remember the first “Little Mermaid” from back in ’89 and to know that Disney princesses were historically white women.

Ariel the Little Mermaid is part of your … historically inaccurate … world. “The Little Mermaid” is being criticized by a prominent diversity advocate for its erasure of slavery in the ...

In Anderson’s version, the Little Mermaid (who doesn’t even get an actual name in the original story) gives up her mermaid identity in order to snag the prince — but gets rebuffed by the guy ...

She founded Afro Mermaid in 2019 to create space for melanated merfolk to be their authentic selves as they navigate a mostly-white industry and stereotypes like “Black people can’t swim ...

The Black mermaid does not eradicate the love we had for the white one. Red haired Ariel still swims in our collective imaginations. The ocean is big with room for all kinds of merfolks.

Local residents, Black and White, objected to the mermaid’s imprisonment, demanding that the druggist liberate her. Surely it was her captive condition that prompted all the rain.

That bygone era of exclusively white children’s characters was not so long ago. Take 1989. The top-grossing children’s films were “The Little Mermaid,” “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and ...