The 2024 Fashionistas dolls, including the blind Barbie doll and Black Barbie doll with Down syndrome, are available online now and in-store this Summer at major retailers for $10.99.

As a young girl in segregated Spartanburg, South Carolina, Kitty Black Perkins took a brown crayon to white paper dolls so their skin would match hers. “I seldom saw white people, and so it was ...

Honestly, this doll is so impeccable. The quality is absolutely great, and her overall look is to die for. I am getting so obsessed with these dolls, and I cannot stop looking thru.

The first black Barbie came in a box in a box that touted “She’s black! She’s beautiful! She’s dynamite!” Mattel Although Mattel had introduced the Christie doll as Barbie’s friend in ...

Blind @barbie is here & I am her ambassador 💖 AD This is not a drill! The most popular doll in the world has a long white cane. Now blind people everywhere can grow up feeling represented ...

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 ...

As it turns out that aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, was one of Mattel’s first Black employees starting in the Fifties — and a key impetus for the 1980 creation of Black Barbie.

Mitchell started on the assembly line at Mattel, the company behind Barbie, in 1955. At the beginning of the ’60s, Mitchell proposed the idea of a Black doll to Barbie’s creator, Ruth Handler.

Blind Barbie Blind Barbie with white cane. CREDIT: Mattel/Barbie In a continued effort to ensure their dolls represent the world’s kids, Barbie has introduced its first ever blind doll.

“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 ...