Patricia Turner, an African American studies professor and dean ... However, none of those dolls bore the “Barbie” name — and they also lacked traditionally Black facial features, with ...

The new Netflix documentary “Black Barbie”, tracks the powerful story ... the late 1960s when Diahann Carroll became the first African American woman to lead a television show in the hit ...

Inside the biggest change in barbie’s 57-year history–and what ... in the focus groups I watched were middle class and African American or Hispanic.) “She’s cute thick,” offers one ...

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 ...