"The Princess and the Frog" sequel is the latest Black project to be scrapped before it even reached the big screen.

The story follows Celie, a Black woman in the rural South in the early 1900s, buffeted between abusive men while trying to find love and purpose.

Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African ... show. It was advertised as a peephole view of what black people were really like. To that extent, it affected all of ...