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You know Barbie, right? No matter how old you are, you’ve likely owned the doll at some point or known someone who has. Since ...
LeBron James trades the court for the catwalk in Mattel’s latest Barbie collab. Read our review of the toy and its sneakers.
Amirah Kambe’s research reinforces the idea that representation impacts children’s confidence, mental health and well-being.
Because Mattel let others take control [in marketing partnerships and in the making of the movie], it was more engaging for ...
The African American Quilt & Doll Show opened author Silk Allen ... Popular dolls include pre-World War 2 antique and vintage dolls, fashion and artists-based dolls like Barbie and Tonner, ...
A viral image of Ncuti Gatwa posing with a Barbie version of himself as the fifteenth doctor in the popular British series Doctor Who has caused reactions among fans.
Now, Gatwa returns to the Barbie universe again, thanks to an upcoming Doctor Who collaboration. The Fifteenth Doctor and his ...
Mattel The Barbie Signature LeBron James Kenbassadors doll will be available to purchase ... as a kid growing up in the inner city and a lot of African-American kids, you don't really think ...
“Black Butterfly: Proud and Beautiful African American Doll Collection ... which features more than two dozen Black Barbie and Ken dolls, and many of their accessories. Howell, of Kernersville ...
“Getting a Black Barbie was a very important moment in mainstream doll history,” says Crystal Marie Moten, a historian and scholar of 20th-century African American women’s history, and a ...
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 ...