Using their “CreativeSoul” studio, they teamed up with hairstylist LaChanda Gatson to create a series of photos of Disney Princesses who are all young Black girls.
The spellbinding series features 14 magical, regal black girls each of whom embodies a Disney princess.
Compiled into a book titled, GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty, the young black girls stunningly portrayed these characters with such grace and beauty that shows that black magic knows no bounds.
According to Gatson, who developed the stories with the Bethencourts, young black girls often grow up without seeing anyone who looks like them in the stories they consume.
After posting the black Disney Princesses on Facebook, the series immediately went viral with many comments coming from parents of young Black daughters.