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 ...

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 ...

Barbie is more than just a doll. The brand does $1 billion in ... women 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 ...

The first hijab-wearing Barbie doll was unveiled by Ibtihaj Muhammad at Glamour's Women of the Year summit The first hijab-wearing Barbie doll has been released to honour an American fencer who ...