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Lagueria Davis hates dolls. At least that’s what the director of Netflix’s Black Barbie documentary (streaming now) says in the first few minutes of the film. As a kid, she preferred powering ...
Meghan Markle once wrote about how her dad used a Barbie set to help her celebrate being biracial. Writing for Elle in 2016, Meghan said her dad made a custom Barbie set with Black and white dolls.
The concept of a Black Barbie doll was first floated at Mattel almost immediately after Barbie herself was created. The company responded in the late 1960s with a handful of Black dolls that were ...
Mattel announced the two new dolls on Tuesday as part of Barbie's 2024 Fashionistas Line, an inclusive range of dolls with over 175 varieties of skin tone, eye color, hair color and texture, body ...
The first Black Barbie debuted in 1979, two decades after Mattel introduced the original Barbie. Before then, several Black American dolls were added to the Barbie franchise, like 'colored Francie ...
The first Black Barbie, which debuted in 1980, featured a doll fully immersed in her identity. Designed by Kitty Black Perkins, the doll had an Afro to complement her red dress and gold jewelry.
She was specifically a Black Barbie, unlike the other Black dolls from the company that either had a different name or the same design as Barbie just with a darker skin tone.
Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday. “My first Black Barbie came as a hand me down from one of my sisters.
But “Black Barbie” questions, in its third chapter, how effective the inclusive dolls actually have been for Black children. This section of the movie is filmed after the wave of Black Lives ...
Black Barbie, the new documentary from Netflix tells the story of three Black women at Mattel responsible for spearheading the evolution of the Barbie brand in 1980. The film also explores the ...
The “Black Barbie” documentary comes amid the Barbie boom, as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s live-action movie filled theaters to the tune of $1.4 billion and counting.
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