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 ...

That initial conversation led Davis to start making her film in 2011, one that puts Black Barbie in the spotlight and examines how her introduction changed the toy industry and society.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As her aunt poured her a drink, she began telling Davis the story of how she started working for Mattel in 1959 and later played an influential role in the toy maker’s launch of Black Barbie in ...