Barbie has unveiled their newest Blind Barbie Doll and Black Barbie Doll with Down syndrome as part of its fashionista collection. This, as the country recognizes July as Disability Pride Month.

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.

Two new Barbie dolls with disabilities were announced on July 23, the first-ever blind Barbie doll and the second Barbie doll with Down syndrome, Mattel said in a press release.

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 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 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.

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 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.