"Zip-a-Dee-Doo ... Doo-Dah” originated in the 1946 film Song of the South. The movie was based on a series of short stories by Joel Chandler Harris centered on Uncle Remus, a Black man in ...

(CNN) -- Disneyland has removed the "zip-a-dee-doo-dah" lyric played during its park parades because it comes from a movie that has been criticized for racist portrayals of Black Americans.

Listen, I don’t want to sound authoritarian, but I hereby announce that the coming week is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Week,” and that everyone 16 or older is required to sing its lyrics in public at ...