Lagueria Davis hates dolls ... that history]." After meeting Mitchell, viewers are introduced to Kitty Black Perkins - Mattel's first Black designer, who actually created Black Barbie - and ...

South Carolina native Kitty Perkins made the first Black Barbie doll in 1980. People Magazine reported that she had never owned a Barbie doll during her childhood.

A celebration of Black excellence and history will ... “Black Barbie” follows the story of Davis, a Fort Worth native, on the origin of the Black Barbie doll with the help of her aunt, Beulah ...