Actress, model and activist Sofia Sanchez channeled Mattel's first-ever Barbie with Down ... Mattel's executive vice president and global head of Barbie & Dolls, said in a statement.

Black Barbie – aka Netflix’s new Shondaland documentary – explores the untold story of the first Black Barbie ... of true representation – and how dolls are not just dolls, but childhood ...

Mattel's first Black Barbie with Down syndrome joins Mattel's existing Fashionista doll with Down Syndrome, first released in 2023. The two new dolls were designed in collaboration with the ...

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 ...

Three hundred thousand Barbie dolls were sold in the first year. The toy swiftly grew so popular she needed her own entourage. In 1961, Barbie got a boyfriend, Ken, named, perhaps oddly ...