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 ...
“Lilli dolls could be bought in tobacco shops ... any social media influencer would envy. But one pic of an African-American ...
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 ...
From 'Barbie' to the long-time controversy ... collection in the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History in ...
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 ...
Visitors can walk through a huge, human-scaled Barbie dream house that’s a re-creation of the 1979 plastic version. The ...
The little doll who conquered the world has a pretty ... rights in support of her oldest friend Christie, the first African-American Barbie released in 1968. The big hair craze of the early ...