T he Netflix documentary Black Barbie chronicles Kitty Perkins’ journey to create the iconic black Barbie dolls. Produced by Shonda Rhimes, the documentary focuses on how Mattel received ...

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 ...

In 'Black Barbie,' designers Kitty Black Perkins and Stacey McBride-Irby talk the evolution of the dolls and further tell PEOPLE about the differences they've made Hedy Phillips is the Senior ...

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 ...

The exhibition illustrates "where the culture was, the mindset and the fashion from that period, and you can see it through ...

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 ...

Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.

Barbie has come a long way in her many years on shelves and in the hands of girls around the world. First introduced to the world on March 9, 1959, Barbie was created to be a woman with a plethora ...