Netflix’s 'Black Barbie' tells the story of how the first Black Barbie came to be — and the lasting impact she left behind Barbie dolls first hit the shelves in 1959 — but it would take more ...

with the first-ever blind Barbie doll and a Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Toy manufacturer Mattel announced the two new ...

In 1980, Mattel introduced the first Black and Latino Barbie and Ken dolls after previously relegating multicultural dolls to the friend role. It also released the first of a series of ...

The dolls are at once idealistic and materialistic ... Mattel introduced the first Black Barbie, designed by Kitty Black Perkins. Her box read: “She’s black! She’s beautiful!

Copeland is the first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. Mattel released the first female President and Vice President Barbie dolls on July 13, 2016. Nearly two weeks after the ...

Here’s what you need to know, then, about Black Barbie. When Ruth Handler created the first Barbie in 1959, her aim was simple: that, through the doll, a little girl could be anything she wanted ...

but this was the first time a Black doll had the word Barbie," she said of Mattel's dolls. The very first Black Barbie (middle) debuted in 1980, 21 years after Barbie debuted on March 9 ...

Black Barbie is the untold story of the first Barbie doll created as a Black woman and the pivotal role that three trailblazing women had in working with the Mattel Company in 1980 to produce a ...

She has platinum blonde hair styled in the fashion of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and she’s dressed in a black-and-white striped swimsuit. The first Barbie doll, which sold for just $3 when ...