Perkins explains that she recruited Mellie Phillips, a Mattel doll hair designer who was also Black, to design an afro for the Black Barbie. Another Black Mattel employee had the idea to make the ...

“That was a little act of revolution,” Dr. Patricia Turner, an African American studies professor and dean of UCLA College, said in the Netflix documentary Black Barbie. Civil rights activists ...

Inside the biggest change in barbie’s 57-year history–and what ... as young as 6 or 7 are already conditioned for a particular silhouette in their dolls, and it highlights Mattel’s challenge.

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“Getting a Black Barbie was a very important moment in mainstream doll history,” says Crystal Marie Moten, a historian and scholar of 20th-century African American women’s history, and a ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Black Barbie: A Documentary started streaming on Netflix on Juneteenth, detailing the creation of the ...

In the first few minutes of her new documentary film, the writer and director Lagueria Davis pays a visit to her aunt, Beulah Mitchell. At Mitchell’s house, they look through a room filled with ...

Barbie took the world by storm last summer. Greta Gerwig's Barbie film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling grossed over $1.4 billion at the global box office making history as the highest ...

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