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Mattel just introduced the first Black ... eye colors, hair colors and textures, body types, disabilities and fashions.” When Mattel introduced the first Barbie doll with Down syndrome last ...
ORIGINAL STORY: Police are seeking the public's help in locating a 41-year-old man with Down syndrome who went ... weighing 235 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. Police urge anyone who ...
Her hair is textured and braided, a request made to Mattel from the Black Down syndrome community, while her blue and yellow dress features a pattern that is associated with the Down syndrome ...
A focus group of Black individuals from the Down syndrome community reviewed the doll's shape, hair, fashion and glasses. Taylor Freeman, a young Black woman with Down syndrome, also joined the ...
The Black Barbie doll with Down syndrome is the second Barbie Fashionista doll with the condition. The first, a Caucasian doll with blonde hair, was released in 2023. "NDSS is thrilled to ...
Barbie has unveiled their newest Blind Barbie Doll and Black Barbie ... with a braided hair texture, pink eyeglasses and clothes with meaningful symbols to represent Down syndrome awareness.
FOR TOO long, Black children with Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) have been invisible, absent from mainstream representation,’ Reflecting Radiance’, a first-of-its-kind photography exhibition ...