The first Black doll Debra Britt ever received was not, in fact, Black. Dolls with skin tones akin to hers were rare at the ...

From 'Barbie' to the long-time controversy over American ... with the largest collection in the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Some of the dolls can still be found ...

Twyman hopes for more people to donate African American Barbie dolls to the university's Black Archives in order to possibly have a Barbie exhibition. The Black Archives Museum is open to the ...

Black Barbie dolls didn’t exist at the time for girls ... the paper dolls” to make them look like her. South Carolina African-American History Calendar stated that Black-Perkins’ journey ...

LOS ANGELES, March 5 (Reuters) - At 65 years of age, Barbie shows no signs of retiring from her 250 different jobs as a plastic and fantastic doll whose small feet have left a big cultural mark on ...

Mattel’s new “Inspiring Women Series” Barbie duplicates the barrier-shattering moment Kristi Yamaguchi made history at the ...

Yamaguchi, who became the first Asian American to win an individual figure skating gold medal, at the 1992 Winter Olympics, ...

Katie Phang is joined by legendary figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi to discuss the debut of her Barbie doll inspired by her ...

In 1967, Mattel introduced the first African American Barbie, but the moulds were the same as the original white dolls. In 1997, Mattel released a black Barbie in partnership with Oreo (she held ...

Air,' author Alicia D. Williams created a character who finds strength in softness. Here, she explains why young Black boys ...

With the launch of the new Barbie, Mattel also announced a donation for Yamaguchi's children's literacy nonprofit, Always ...

Ed Bieber, a Wisconsin man known as "Ed the Diver," has been cleaning local waterways for about five years, and his most recent find, a 1990s Barbie doll, has sparked an unexpected eBay auction." ...