Amirah Kambe’s research reinforces the idea that representation impacts children’s confidence, mental health and well-being.

The Christie doll is widely considered the first true African American doll in the Barbie line. She was introduced in the midst of the civil rights movement, when critics chided Mattel for failing ...

But Black Barbie wasn’t just a sales success for ... currently, there isn’t any African American doll line that receives its own commercial, that receives its own print ad and support, that ...

Turner, who teaches African American Studies at UCLA ... In 2019, the company came out with its first Barbie doll in a wheelchair and another that has a prosthetic leg, thus helping to solidify ...

Mattel Although Mattel had introduced the Christie doll as Barbie’s friend in 1968 — and Cara would follow her in the ’70s — this was the first time an African-American bore the name of ...

We had a Mattel African-American Forum at the time, and we had a team of people creating the full story of the So In Style line of dolls." Perkins and McBride-Irby both feel like Barbie has ...

Mattel released the African-American Barbie and Ken dolls in 1980. Though there had been an African-American doll in prior collections, the one shown on the right was named as the official African ...

Barbie, in 1980. With richly brown skin and a cutely curly coif, the African-American doll not only became the first figurine of color to bear the blond’s buzzy name, but the unsung heroine also ...

and failed to represent African cultural features. Yet Black Perkins counters that if Mattel had implemented "drastic" changes to the Malibu Barbie prototype, she doesn't believe the doll would've ...

Gatwa isn’t the first Time Lord to be Barbie-fied–Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor had that honor back in 2018 –but Millie ...

“Lilli dolls could be bought in tobacco shops ... any social media influencer would envy. But one pic of an African-American ...

Here are the paint colors the pros suggest Certain vintage Barbie dolls, meanwhile ... Alpha Barbies (which commemorated the historically African American sorority) can go for up to around ...