Instead of yellow curly ... Black children of different ages, skin tones and hair textures in traditionally white roles, like Cinderella. In the retelling of Cinderella, "Asha the Little Cinder ...

Thinking of Shirley brings me right back to my childhood, when I'd sit at my grandparents' house and watch (and rewatch and rewatch) old black-and-white movies featuring the little girl with those ...