Mattel’s latest doll honors a groundbreaking designer who changed toy history forever. The iconic Black Barbie celebrates nearly half a century of representation this month with a tribute that ...

In 'Black Barbie,' designers Kitty Black Perkins and Stacey McBride-Irby talk the evolution of the dolls and further tell PEOPLE about the differences they've made Hedy Phillips is the Senior ...

Black Barbie's emergence challenged beauty norms, paving the way for diversity in the toy industry. Mattel's delayed release of the first Black Barbie in 1980 was influenced by societal and ...

But Black Barbie wasn’t just a sales success for Mattel: She was a doll that would permanently change the toy landscape for children everywhere. And now, Black Barbie, a new Netflix documentary ...

“But when you speak to the women who wanted a Black Barbie at the time, all they got was a friend of Barbie.” It was these concerns that led to the founding of Shindana Toys in South Central ...

takes a deeper look at the story behind Black Barbie and its impact on representation in the toy business, and culture more broadly. The film features the stories of Black women who worked at ...

Black Barbie stormed onto the toy scene as the “dynamite” antithesis to her Malibu sun-kissed, pink-obsessed predecessor, Barbie, in 1980. With richly brown skin and a cutely curly coif ...

The documentary began with its director, Lagueria Davis, and her familial ties to Black Barbie. While lacking an affinity for the toy, Davis noticed her Aunt Beulah’s appreciation for the dolls.

Black Perkins created the first Black Barbie so other children could see themselves in the toy introduced in 1959. Mattel began offering Christie, a Black friend of Barbie’s, in 1968 ...

with the first-ever blind Barbie doll and a Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Toy manufacturer Mattel announced the two new additions to its Fashionista line on Tuesday. The company worked closely ...