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 all I ...

The creative mind behind the movie “Queen & Slim” has designed Barbie’s latest looks, in honor of Black History Month. Mattel worked with costume designer Shiona Turini to outfit a set of Barbies in ...

A “Black Barbie” documentary is on the way now that Shondaland and Netflix have acquired worldwide rights to the Lagueria Davis-directed film. Unveiled at SXSW earlier this year, Davis’ “Black Barbie” ...

The documentary was released on Netflix and produced by Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland. The creation and impact of Black Barbie is now on display in a new documentary. Black Barbie details the doll’s ...

A new documentary on Netflix tells the story of the first Black Barbie doll. The doll arrived in 1980 — more than two decades after the 1959 launch of the first Barbie. If last year was the summer of ...

Netflix uber-producer Shonda Rhimes has snapped up the rights for “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” which chronicles Mattel’s 1980 introduction of the first Black doll, bringing some much-needed ...

The documentary will be released on Netflix on Juneteenth. By Christy Piña Associate Editor “If you go through life, and you’ve never seen anything made in your own image, there is damage done,” ...

Barbie is everything. She's everywhere. She's in a box-office billion-dollar smash hit directed by Greta Gerwig. However, despite all her success — especially in recent years — the one question always ...

Walmart says lower sales of the black doll prompted the price cut. March 9, 2010 — -- Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll ...

Over the past few years, we’ve watched the world transition from boldly declaring its “hot girl summer” to peacefully claiming its “soft girl era.” Now, Issa Rae’s star turn in the upcoming “Barbie” ...