Brew Beauty: Anika Noni Rose

Tony Award-winning singer/actress Anika Noni Rose is our seventh Brew Beauty of the Week! Her name may not be household yet, but just you watch!  This Brew Beauty is making major moves from Broadway to HBO and the big screen, and soon, she’ll live in your daughter’s (or son’s…we don’t judge here) toy box.  Anika is the voice of Disney’s first Black princess in the upcoming movie The Princess and the Frog. 

Anika won her first Tony Award in 2004 in the musical Caroline, or Change.  She’s had a couple of movie roles but certainly, her biggest turn was as Lorrell in Dreamgirls.  She also stars with fellow Brew Beauty Jill Scott in HBO’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.  Next month, you can catch her in The Princess and the Frog.  I just love how landing this role hasn’t gone to her head!  She seems just as proud yet humbled to be the groundbreaker as we are to have that uncharted Disney ground broken!

I would have loved for Princess Tiana to have had a chocolate Mandingo prince, but hey, can’t win every battle, right? The Princess and the Frog hits theatres in NY and LA on November 25^th and nationwide on December 11^th.

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Brew News: Yes We Can!!! Be A Disney Princess Parade-ster

Princess Tiana arrives with fanfare at Disney World. This is so awesome. I remember pretending that Snow White was just lightskinddeded or some kinda Creole, when I was a kid. It's good to know that, now, little black girls don't have to play mind tricks with themselves into thinking they can be princesses too. As I grew got into my pre-teens, I realized that the goal of princess was a pretty lame ass one to aspire to-- but shouldn't little black girls have the option of being as lame as little white girls? That's called leveling the playing field, baby!

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Personally, I'd really prefer any daughter of mine to want to be a super shero!