It’s been 44 years since toy maker Mattel introduced the first official Black Barbie to the market. As filmmaker Lagueria Davis illustrates in Netflix’s “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” the ...

Shiona Turini's history with Barbie dolls is similar to that of many black women. Store shelves would be brimming with Barbie dolls in a range of different hair color shades—blonde, brunette ...

Barbie has always been a history maker and in the 1980s, three Black women did that when Black Barbie debuted. Beulah Mae Mitchell, Kitty Black Perkins, and Stacey McBride Irby transformed Mattel ...

Wednesday marks Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the day enslaved people in Texas first learned of their emancipation. It’s an occasion for Americans to reflect on how much progress ...

Black Barbie: A Documentary (2023) Film Review from the 30th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Lagueria Davis and starring Monica L. Bailey, Raj Brown ...

Sonya Larson, 48, of Olathe, Kansas, has been collecting Black Barbie dolls for over 30 years, according to The Kansas City Star. She has so many dolls that she created a shrine in the basement of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In an effort to be more inclusive and represent the wide range of children who play with their toys, Mattel has announced the addition of a blind Barbie doll and a Black ...

Mattel's latest Barbieland Fashionistas are the stylish likenesses of a blind Barbie and her a mobility aid, and the line's first Black Barbie with Down syndrome, adding even more representative ...

A blind Barbie doll and Black Barbie doll with Down syndrome have just hit the shelves as part of Mattel's efforts to make the iconic doll more reflective of the world's diversity. Blind Barbie ...