Loving you just keeps getting better and better! Happy anniversary, @BarackObama. Here’s to many, many more years of joy, laughter, and memories to come. 💕
This video of Barack and Michelle Obama meeting 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin will never stop mattering.
Born in segregated South Carolina in 1909, she once wrote: “I didn’t think I would live to see a Colored President.”
When her dream finally came true, she danced through the White House and declared: “I’m here to celebrate Black history.”
She lived long enough to see history change. ❤️
There are dreams… and then there are moments that feel as though they were written in the stars long before you ever arrived. ✨👑🩵🩵
To become a @disney Disney Princess was already beyond anything my younger self could have imagined. But to now stand among the beautiful legacy of Disney Princesses, to know that I am forever a part of this magical family, is something I will never take for granted.
And there is an even deeper meaning for me.
To have been the first Black Cinderella, and to know that the door we walked through helped make the kingdom wider for the beautiful Black princesses who would come after me, is one of the greatest honors of my life.
What Whitney Houston @whitneyhouston and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella gave us was bigger than a movie. We showed a generation of little Black girls that the glass slipper could fit them, too. That they could be soft and powerful. Regal and magical. Seen, celebrated, chosen, and centered in the fairytale.
And then came more history. @anikaaroundtheworld Anika Noni Rose gave us the beautiful Princess Tiana. Halle Bailey @hallebailey brought a new generation under the sea as Ariel.
And today, I get to look around at this ever-expanding kingdom and feel the magnitude of what representation can become when one door opens… and we keep holding it open for one another. 👑🩵🩵🩵
From Cinderella at 18 to Queen Cinderella today, this journey continues to feel like divine poetry.
I once stepped into a glass slipper.
I could never have imagined the footprints it would leave behind.
Thank you, Disney, for allowing me to live inside the magic, and for letting that magic keep growing. ✨🏰👑🩵🩵🩵
Forever grateful. Forever Cinderella. 🩵🩵🩵
Disney Princesses from different eras just shared the stage at Disney Princess: The Ultimate Concert Celebration at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California.
The Disney event included:
Brandy: played Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997).
Halle Bailey: played the live-action Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2023).
Jodi Benson: original voice of Ariel in the animated The Little Mermaid.
Anika Noni Rose: original voice of Tiana in The Princess and the Frog.
Auliʻi Cravalho: original voice of Moana.
Lea Salonga: original singing voice of Jasmine and Mulan.
Paige O’Hara: original voice of Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
“I’ve spent years waiting to be chosen.”
Tracee Ellis Ross, who is 53 years old, says society tells women that having children and finding a partner is their worth and makes it clear that she’s not going to let not having a partner define her.
(🎥 What Now? With Trevor Noah/Youtube)
I DO NOT want self-driving cars.
I DO NOT want humanoid robots.
I DO NOT want Al in every app I use.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want a habitable planet.
Hairstylists let’s have a quick chat; Why is there always a late fee for clients but it’s no discount for when the stylist is late, not ready, or overlaps appointments? 👀